Climate, soil and land resources in North Africa and West Asia

1981 ◽  
Vol 58 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Kassam
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Land Resources

Resource and Territorial Factors of Modernization (on the Example of Arab Countries of North Africa)

2014 ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
D. Trubitsyn
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Production Development ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Problems ◽  
Hydrocarbon Reserves

The article is devoted to interdisciplinary problems of modernization. Through the comparative historical analysis of economics of Arab countries of North Africa in the second half of the 20th century, an attempt is made to prove that intensification sets in as a result of the lack of potentials for an extensive economic strategy. Comparing the data about population size, availability and condition of land resources, hydrocarbon reserves and their significance for economy, as well as the results of the industrial production development in these countries, the author comes to the conclusion that resource constraints are a necessary factor for modernization.

Ibadi Muslims of North Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Love, Jr
Keyword(s):  
North Africa

Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Thurston
Keyword(s):  
North Africa

The Dupont family: collectors, dealers and naturalists in nineteenth-century Paris

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Mearns ◽  
Laurent Chevrier ◽  
Christophe Gouraud
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family History ◽  
Natural History ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
The Family ◽  
Small Collection

In the early part of the nineteenth century the Dupont brothers ran separate natural history businesses in Paris. Relatively little is known about their early life but an investigation into the family history at Bayeux corrects Léonard Dupont's year of birth from 1795 to 1796. In 1818 Léonard joined Joseph Ritchie's expedition to North Africa to assist in collecting and preparing the discoveries but he did not get beyond Tripoli. After 15 months he came back to Paris with a small collection from Libya and Provence, and returned to Provence in 1821. While operating as a dealer-naturalist in Paris he published Traité de taxidermie (1823, 1827), developed a special interest in foreign birds and became well known for his anatomical models in coloured wax. Henry Dupont sold a range of natural history material and with his particular passion for beetles formed one of the finest collections in Europe; his best known publication is Monographie des Trachydérides (1836–1840). Because the brothers had overlapping interests and were rarely referred to by their forenames there has been confusion between them and the various eponyms that commemorate them. Although probably true, it would be an over-simplification to state that birds of this era named for Dupont refer to Léonard Dupont, insects to Henry Dupont, and molluscs to their mother.

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