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IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.006

Julijan Sutlović

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Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2024.12.001

Briony McDonagh, Hannah Worthen, Stewart Mottram

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IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.001

Philip Jagessar

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IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.003

Fiona Williamson

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IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.008

H.J.M. Ishmael

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IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.009

José Luis Romanillos

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IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.010

Matthew J. Hannaford

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The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Reopening the gaze of a second city 伯明翰博物馆和艺术馆：重新开启第二座城市的目光

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.002

Rita Gayle

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Coal, state, and society: Resource-making and state formation in early republican Turkey

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.007

Mehmet Eroğlu

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Surviving the agricultural periphery: Climatic resilience and livestock production in pre-industrial central Scandinavia

IF 1.3 2区历史学

Journal of Historical Geography Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.02.006

Martin Karl Skoglund

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