Charles Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3753189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this by reinvestigating two recorded outbreaks of plague in Iceland in 1402–4 and 1494–5. It is argued that these were episodes of pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, and that the likely mortality was no more than 25% of the population in both cases. This contr…
The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks
Flow of funds; Monetary policy
State Policymakers and Time-Shortened Degree Programs
State policymakers' attitudes toward time-shortened degree programs were investigated through a questionnaire sent to legislators and directors of statewide governing or coordinating boards. A review of formal state actions suggests little attention paid to the concept; however, the questionnaire indicated agreement among policymakers with the concept as an option for students. The option is thought to appeal more to the older student. Credit by …
Frontier Peoples of Nepal
Timeless Truth
Coronation Everest
Untrodden Peaks
Kangchenjunga Climbed
New Zealand Himalayan Expedition
The Barun Valley lies on the west side of Makalu and the project of sending an expedition to it started in 1952, when Erie Shipton, Ed Hillary, George Lowe and I visited it, crossing to it for the first time from Solu Khumbu, and making a quick journey up and down it before returning to England at the end of the Cho Oyu Expedition. After that, Hillary, through the New Zealand Alpine Club, asked permission to take an expedition there in 1954. The …
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this by reinvestigating two recorded outbreaks of plague in Iceland in 1402–4 and 1494–5. It is argued that these were episodes of pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, and that the likely mortality was no more than 25% of the population in both cases. This contr…
New Zealand Himalayan Expedition
The Barun Valley lies on the west side of Makalu and the project of sending an expedition to it started in 1952, when Erie Shipton, Ed Hillary, George Lowe and I visited it, crossing to it for the first time from Solu Khumbu, and making a quick journey up and down it before returning to England at the end of the Cho Oyu Expedition. After that, Hillary, through the New Zealand Alpine Club, asked permission to take an expedition there in 1954. The …
Kangchenjunga Climbed
Untrodden Peaks
Coronation Everest
Timeless Truth
Frontier Peoples of Nepal
State Policymakers and Time-Shortened Degree Programs
State policymakers' attitudes toward time-shortened degree programs were investigated through a questionnaire sent to legislators and directors of statewide governing or coordinating boards. A review of formal state actions suggests little attention paid to the concept; however, the questionnaire indicated agreement among policymakers with the concept as an option for students. The option is thought to appeal more to the older student. Credit by …
The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks
Flow of funds; Monetary policy
The mystery of plague in medieval Iceland
This article is aimed at encouraging scholars to continue to take critical, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the cause and scale of historic plague outbreaks. It does this by reinvestigating two recorded outbreaks of plague in Iceland in 1402–4 and 1494–5. It is argued that these were episodes of pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, and that the likely mortality was no more than 25% of the population in both cases. This contr…
Geography (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Abandonment (legal (1 work)