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Between Proxy and Instrument: Reconstructing Past Weather Using Qualitative Human Observations in the Absence of Instrumental and Proxy Records: A Case Study from Shirley Plantation, Virginia USA
In this dissertation, I produce novel scientific knowledge about the weather of the past using subjective human observations in the absence of instrumental records in the United States. Using a handwritten plantation journal from Shirley...
This thesis studies the causal factors of US slavery prior to the Civil War. My main data set is the 1860 census from the National Historical GIS (nhgis.org), which is aggregated to the county level. Historians have traditionally broken...
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