Table Of ContentBetween Time
and Space
Between Time
and Space
Edited by
Sulevi Riukulehto
Between Time and Space
Edited by Sulevi Riukulehto
This book first published 2015
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-7544-9
ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-7544-8
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations .................................................................................... vii
List of Tables .............................................................................................. ix
Preface ........................................................................................................ xi
Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1
Regional History between Time and Space
Sulevi Riukulehto
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 23
Historical Aspects and Influences of the Reproduction of Regions
in Czechia
Michal Semian
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 45
Exploring 21st Century Regional History in Ecohealth and Wellbeing
Research
Elize S. van Eeden
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 67
A Prelude to Wholesale Reform: The History of Regional Governance
and Planning in Auckland, New Zealand, 1840–2010
Mark N. Davey
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 87
Municipalities’ Participation Fund, Inequality and Growth in the State
of Mato Grosso, Brazil, 2001–2010
William Ricardo Marquezin and Adriano Rodrigues Figueiredo
Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 103
Regional Identity Conflicts in Romantic Operas in the First Half
of the 19th Century
Przemys(cid:225)aw Krzywoszy(cid:276)ski
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Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 115
Historical Consciousness and the Experiential Idea of Home
Sulevi Riukulehto and Katja Rinne-Koski
Notes ........................................................................................................ 135
Bibliography ............................................................................................ 141
Contributors ............................................................................................. 171
Index ........................................................................................................ 175
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1-1 The connections of regional history to various trends in history,
economics and social sciences
1-2 The conditions of development in Gunnar Myrdal’s evolutionary
model
1-3 Events, conjunctures and structures in history
2-1 Localization of selected case studies within Czechia
3-1. Map of the Bekkersdal Township, South Africa
3-2 Locational map of the Bekkersdal Township, South Africa
3-3 The West Wits gold line in South Africa
3-4 Positioning Bekkersdal in the West Wits Gold Line developments
4-1 The Auckland Region, New Zealand
5-1 State of Mato Grosso (MT), Brazil
5-2 GDP per capita growth rates, Mato Grosso, Brazil, period 2001–2010
5-3 Histogram: GDP per capita growth rates, Mato Grosso, Brazil, period
2001–2010
5-4 LISA clusters of municipal real GDP per capita growth for the period
2001–2010, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
5-5 LISA clusters of average municipal real GST per capita for the period
2001–2010, Mato Grosso, Brazil
5-6 LISA clusters of average municipal real MPF per capita for the period
2001–2010, Mato Grosso, Brazil
5-7 LISA clusters of the GINI Index of 2000, Mato Grosso, Brazil
7-1 Some basic concepts in history and geography
7-2 Home as the network of key places and key events
7-3 Kuortane, Finland
7-4 The compilation of the discussion sessions, group walks and group
drive in Kuortane 2012–2013
7-5 Loci of home in Kuortane, Finland 2013
7-6 Loci of home in Nurmo, Finland 2012
LIST OF TABLES
1-1 Profile fields for regions in history
3-1 Structuring the comprehensive nature of places and peoples in a region
3-2 An example of a research framework in a theme-specific discourse in
regionally focused histories
5-1 Variables description
5-2 Descriptive statistics, Mato Grosso, 139 municipalities
