Tag: Settlement

Gudme Iron Age Settlement and Central Halls


Free Download Gudme: Iron Age Settlement and Central Halls (Pre-Christian Cult Sites) by Palle Østergaard Sørensen, edited by Mads Dengsø Jessen, Mads Lou Bendtsen
English | September 15, 2022 | ISBN: 178925907X | True EPUB | 472 pages | 48.2 MB
Gudme: The Iron Age Settlement and Central Halls presents, describes and interprets the many finds and structures that have been comprised during the extended excavations at the central parts of the Gudme locality on southeast Funen, Denmark. Head of excavation Palle Østergaard Sørensen extracts, combines, classifies, dates and temporalizes the many finds and houses from the excavations Gudmehallerne, Gudme III, Gudme IV.

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Communal Solidarity Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882-1930


Free Download Arthur Ross, "Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882-1930 "
English | ISBN: 0887558372 | 2019 | 336 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Between 1882 and 1930 approximately 9,800 Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe settled in Winnipeg. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants began to establish secular mutual aid societies, organizations based on egalitarian principles of communal solidarity that dealt with the pervasive problem of economic insecurity by providing financial relief to their members. The organization of mutual aid societies accelerated the development of a vibrant secular public sphere in Winnipeg’s Jewish community in which decisions about the provision of social welfare were decided democratically based on the authority and participation of the people.

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Making Settlement Work An Examination of the Work of Judicial Mediators


Free Download Making Settlement Work: An Examination of the Work of Judicial Mediators By Stacy Lee Burns
2001 | 255 Pages | ISBN: 0754621243 | PDF | 18 MB
Judges are central figures in dispensing justice, who serve as ajudicators deciding litigated questions and implementing decisions. Yet there is evidence to suggest that they devote much time to settling cases rather than adjudicating them. This study uses large money cases to examine practices.

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Ancient Nasca Settlement and Society


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English | 2002 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 0877458162 | PDF | 8,2 mb
Nasca society arose on the south coast of Peru 2000 years ago and evolved over the course of the next 700 years. This text examines the range of sites occupied by the people responsible for some of the most exquisite art and ingenious hydraulic engineering of the pre-Columbian world.

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Settlement Spaces Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities


Free Download Settlement Spaces: Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities: Empirical Study of Four Types of Representative Community Samples by Xiao Wu, Lingjin Wang
English | EPUB(True) | 2021 | 688 Pages | ISBN : 9811648913 | 115.1 MB
This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using the framework of integration response, it theoretically and empirically explores the approaches these communities adopt to survive and evolve. Empirically, this discussion centers on four particular groups, namely international students, land-lost peasants, ethnic minorities, and migrant workers, and offers an analysis of their settlement spaces from different perspectives.

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From Stalemate to Settlement Lessons for Afghanistan from Historical Insurgencies That Have Been Resolved Through Negot


Free Download Colin P. Clarke, "From Stalemate to Settlement: Lessons for Afghanistan from Historical Insurgencies That Have Been Resolved Through Negot"
English | ISBN: 083308237X | 2014 | 92 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A comprehensive review of historical insurgencies that ended in settlement after a military stalemate shows that these negotiations followed a similar path that can be generalized into a "master narrative" of seven steps executed in a common sequence. Such a narrative could help guide and assess the progress of a similar approach to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw.

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Settlement, urbanization, and population


Free Download Settlement, urbanization, and population By Bowman, Alan K.;Wilson, Andrew
2018 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 0198788517 | PDF | 5 MB
Estimating ancient Greek populations : the evidence of field survey / Simon Price — Missing persons? : models of Mediterranean regional survey and ancient populations / Robert Witcher — Calculating plough-zone demographics : some insights from arid-zone surveys / David Mattingly — Rural settlement and population extrapolation : a case study from the Ager of Antium, Central Italy (350 BC-AD 400) / Peter Attema and Tymon de Haas — Cities and economic development in the Roman Empire / Neville Morley — City sizes and urbanization in the Roman Empire / Andrew Wilson — Rank-size analysis and the Roman cities of the Iberian Peninsula and Britain : some considerations / Annalisa Marzano — The urban system of Roman Asia Minor and wider urban connectivity / J.W. Hanson — Towns and territories in Roman Baetica / Simon Keay and Graeme Earl — Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt : population and settlement / Alan Bowman.

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