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    Land Law in Colonial India

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    Land and Law in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy Williams College December 2010 Forthcoming in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden eds. Long-term Economic Change in Eurasian Perspective‚ Stanford University Press. 1 1. Introduction The East India Company’s conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes‚ the principal source of governmental revenue‚ be collected? But taxation was not a thing unto itself; it was

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    HSC GEOGRAPHY YEAR 12 EXAM Question 28 (20 marks) ‘An ecosystem at risk is both vulnerable and resilient to natural stress and human induced modifications.’ Discuss this statement For many years wetlands were seen as only a mosquito infested area. Nowadays they are highly valued ecosystems that are being protected for future generations of wildlife‚ and also people. A wetland is an area of land that is temporarily or permanently inundated. Sydney’s Bicentennial Park is home to 58ha of intertidal

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    Great Lakes Geography

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    The state of Michigan is surrounded by the Great Lakes‚ the largest bodies of fresh water. We are so lucky to have the lakes around us. Michigan was shaped thousands of years ago and what we have now is the cause of many glaciers‚ rivers and lakes‚ and human made alterations. The Great Lakes began to form in the last glacier period about 14‚000 years ago‚ since then they have been a big part of transportation‚ trade and growth for our country. (https://www.google.com/search?q=areas+and+volumes+of+the+great+lakes)

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    Global Geography Project

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    dominating that one. http://www.essayforum.com/writing-feedback-3/cultural-economical-political-globalisation-worth-28155/ The article talks about how economic globalization has expanded the gap between North and South countries. According to some report published by USA‚ the number of developing countries that have benefited from economic globalization is smaller than 20. An example of this is Ford’s Lyman car is designed in Germany‚ its gearing system produced in Korea‚ pump in USA‚ and engine in

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    Hawaiian Island Geography

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    time more formed more (8). There are currently six Hawaiian Islands‚ Hawai’i‚ Maui‚ Lanai‚ Molokai‚ Oahu‚ and Kauai (1). The Hawaiian Islands lie in the Central Pacific Ocean‚ 2‚390 miles from California and 3‚850 miles from Japan (7). Knowing the geography of the islands sets the stage for settlement of them. In two waves‚ the Polynesian people settled in Hawaii. Between 300 and 500 A.D.‚ they began to arrive in Hawaii via canoes. The Polynesians brought

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    In his book The Geography of Thought‚ Richard Nisbett examines how the cognitive processes of eastern and western cultures organize knowledge to make sense of the world. By east the author usually means Far East Asian cultures such as Japan‚ China‚ and Korea. By west he means most of Europe and America. This is an important topic as cultural diversity continues to become a critical part of business and life around the world. Nisbett states that Westerners are more object-based thinkers‚ while

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    The Ultimate Casestudy Guide VERSION 1 (DEC 2009) Casestudies for Geography GCSE 2010 A guide to using the Ultimate Casestudy Guide This guide is designed to help you prepare for your exams by collecting the casestudy information you have learnt during your GCSE and putting it all in one place. This guide does not replace your notes. Part of your revision should be to go back over your notes and add further details to the information in this booklet. This is essential if you would

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    today? Economic Geography has always been an integral part of human geography. ‘Economic geography is usually regarded as a subfield of the discipline of geography‚ although recently economists such as Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs have pursued interests that can be considered part of economic geography’ (Clark et al‚ 2002). Economic geography mainly represents two subfields which are closely associated to each other but they also have some major differences. Economic geography is first referred

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    As Geography Revision Guide

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    Unit 1: Going Global Revision Guide Keywords Birth rate – the number of births per 1‚000 people per year in a region Branch plant – a factory built in a country by a TNC that has its headquarters elsewhere Core- the most developed and highly populated region of a country Death rate – the number of deaths per 1‚000 people per year in a region Deindustrialisation – the decline of regionally important manufacturing industries Dependency – when a nation relies for income on outside

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    Geography Crisis in Modern America Today in the United States‚ there is an alarming and ever growing problem present. The people of the United States are among the worst in the world when tested over geographic literacy. In his address‚ Peirce Lewis‚ the president of geography at Pennsylvania State University‚ states that the majority of Americans are immensely uninformed about geography. He goes on to say that geography can be split into a subject matter and a profession. Subject matter‚ as its

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