This wondrous land

The Ord–Victoria area survey was conducted between 1949 and 1952 though not updated and published until 1970. The survey covered ~232,300 km2 in six physical regi...

Scholars of esotericism often cite Ebenezer Sibly as a key figure in the transmission of early modern knowledge of the arcane to its “rediscovery” in the nineteenth century. Their ...

While situating and contextualizing land-grabbing in Kashmir within the global land-grabbing debate, this chapter provides a detailed and critical account of the dominant assumptio...

Land Law maintains a critical emphasis and encourages the reader to consider and understand the law in context (both within society and the academic world), not just in the abstrac...

Pure Land Buddhism uses the term jinen rather than shizen to refer to the supernatural power of Amida’s compassion that facilitates rebirth in the Pure Land. Often dismissed as unr...

Abstract As the British Empire consolidated its geographical possession of distant lands by the nineteenth century, the agrarian nature of its colonies necessitated ...

Indigenous Japanese narratives about the land and its relation with human societies have been handed down from generation to generation as guides to appropriate human conduct. Thou...

In the twenty-first century, archaeologists are seeing an increased number of “buried ships” that provide unique opportunities in nautical archaeology. More holistic view of mariti...