Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya

The Himalaya are world-renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery, ancient traditions, and diverse ethnic groups that tenaciously inhabit this harsh yet sublime landscape. Home to the world’s highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and some of its deepest gorges, the region is a trove of biological and cultural diversity. Providing a panoramic overview of contemporary land and life in the Earth’s highest mountains, the Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya is the first full-color, comprehensive atlas of the geography, economics, politics, and culture of this spectacular area. Drawing from the authors’ twenty-five years of scholarship and field experience in the region, the volume contains a stunning and unique collection of maps utilizing state-of-the-art cartography, exquisite photography, and engagingly-written text to give accurate coverage of the Himalaya. The volume covers the entire 2,700-kilometer length of the mountain range, from the Indus Valley in northern Pakistan and India, across Nepal and Bhutan, to the hidden realms of northeast India. The Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya not only offers detailed explanations of geological formations, climate, vegetation, and natural resources but also explores the human dimension of the region’s culture and economy. The authors devote special attention to discovery and travel, including exploration, mountaineering, and trekking. Packed with over 300 easy-to-read, custom designed full color maps and photographs and detailed text and map indexes, the Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya is a superb collector’s volume and an essential reference to this vast and complex mountain region. “This is a magnificent full-color comprehensive atlas of the contemporary life and land of the Earth’s highest mountains.” -- Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment An outstanding introduction to the geography and people of these mountains. -- Himalayan Watch Winner of the 2006 National Outdoor Book Award. [These are] [. . .] beautiful, stunning, and often thought-provoking black and white photographs of the sacred places of the Himalayan regions [. . .] -- Asian Affairshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_asian_studies/1004/thumbnail.jp

The Chinese civil service

Annual lectures held in honor of George E. Morriso

Holland City News, Volume 67, Number 30: July 28, 1938

Newspaper published in Holland, Michigan, from 1872-1977, to serve the English-speaking people in Holland, Michigan. Purchased by local Dutch language newspaper, De Grondwet, owner in 1888.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/hcn_1938/1029/thumbnail.jp

The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia

On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called “native explorers” or “pundits” in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller’s efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten. Derek Waller, professor emeritus of political science at Vanderbilt University, was the author of The Government and Politics of the People’s Republic of China. A fascinating and historically important book about the frontier policies of the British empire, policies bearing some resonance even today as controversy over frontiers (the Durnad Line, the McMahon Line) in the region continues. -- American Historical Review A necessary, important, and highly readable book which must rival any yet published in shedding fresh light on nineteenth-century exploration. -- London Independent An excellent and very well-researched book; for the first time the explorations of the Pundits have been recorded in one book, and we can be grateful to Derek Waller for having done it so well. -- USI Journalhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_asian_history/1000/thumbnail.jp

Ever Westward to the Far East: the Story of Chester Fritz

Published in 1982, Ever Westward to the Far East tells the story of UND benefactor Chester Fritz. The book was written with Dan Rylance of the Chester Fritz Library.https://commons.und.edu/und-books/1102/thumbnail.jp

"Schistosomiasis in South Africa": a review of the history, intermediate hosts, incidence, signs and symptoms and treatment, based on an analysis of thirty-four cases. With an appendix on the recently introduced organic anatomy compounds

Schistosomiasis as it appears in South Africa has certain features and peculiarities differentiating it from the type seen in other lands. There appears to be no coordinated account in the literature of Schistosomiasis in South Africa and an attempt is here made to review the position, using the analysis of thirty-four cases personally treated as a background. The observations made on these thirty-four cases are compared with those of other investigators in South Africa and with the findings in other countries.A brief account is given of(a) the history of Schistosomiasis, with special reference to the part played by South Africa in the elucidation of the aetiology;(b) the identification of the intermediate hosts and the determination of the species of the molluscs responsible for the transmission in South Africa;(c) the incidence of the disease in South Africa with relation to age, sex, race and religion, class of person infected, geographical distribution and the type of schistosome found;(d) the signs and symptoms;(e) the treatment with special reference to the treatment of the thirty -four cases and a discussion on some of the faults that have marred the progress of the eradication of the disease in the Union;(f) the methods adopted in South Africa for the prevention of the disease.Although in parts there seems to be some adverse comment upon the handling of the position by the Authorities, it has been done in a spirit of constructive criticism, fully realising the difficulties that have been and are still to be overcome.Throughout reference has been made to the condition as it affects other countries in the hope that comparisons and contrasts may be of value in the final solution of the problem.An appendix is added on the use of the more recent complex organic antimony compounds so bringing the subject up to date and also in the hope that the information gathered may be of some value in further consideration of the ultimate conquest of the disease

Santa Fe New Mexican, 09-11-1913

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A Theory Kit for World History

This report presents a “kit” of theories regarding major processes in human history formed into a whole, a “theory kit”, with the aim to understand how these processes unfold over thousands of years. The theory kit has an underlying fundamental theoretical approach concerning dialectical, contradictory, processes as a core of the complex matrix that shapes human history. In the kit, history is presented in three spheres that are given equal importance: material culture, social structure and societal mentality. An enigma in world history is the common rhythm: different parts of the world tend to move at the same time and in the same direction. The claim here is that the enormous interacting complexity is one explanation of this relative unity in change. In the theory kit a number of issues are discussed, such as: Axial Ages, class struggle, empires, expansion-stagnation-crisis, agricultural world systems, technological complex(es), mentality world systems, invention-innovation