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Synthesis: Four Centuries of a Contested Coast

Posted on July 19, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This concluding paper draws together the arguments of the preceding nine and advances an interpretation of the whole. It proposes that the military history of Tampa Bay passed through three phases—the bay as beachhead, as staging area, and finally … Continue reading →

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Business Plan: An Independent Regional Point-to-Point Carrier for the Eastern U.S.

Posted on July 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The concept in one paragraph An independent, single-brand regional jet operator that connects secondary and small cities directly to each other — and to a small number of self-owned “mini-hubs” — across the Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast, extending … Continue reading →

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The Rejected Stone: Southwest Airlines and the Strategic Logic of the Secondary Airport: A White Paper on Airport Selection as Competitive Architecture

Posted on June 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary For most of its history, Southwest Airlines has built one of the largest passenger franchises in the world by doing something its larger rivals declined to do: flying into the second-best airport in town. Where American, Delta, and … Continue reading →

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The Rainy Season in Belize City: Storm Regimes, Rainfall Loading, Street Flooding, and the Long-Term Viability of a Sea-Level Capital-of-Commerce

Posted on June 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Belize City occupies one of the more difficult sites in the Caribbean basin: a former mangrove flat at or marginally below the level of the sea, exposed to a rainy season that delivers the majority of a high annual … Continue reading →

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Streets So Lonely

Posted on June 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

When my mother and I were still on our way to Belize in Houston, we talked to someone who referred to Belize City as the armpit of Belize and commented on his preference for staying in a small town or … Continue reading →

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Structure Over Personality: Jefferson Davis, the Department System, and the Western Command Problem

Posted on June 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The case studies assembled in this volume have proceeded dyad by dyad, treating each relationship between Jefferson Davis and a general as the unit of analysis. This paper deliberately reverses that lens. It asks whether the recurring Confederate failures … Continue reading →

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The Afterlife of a Lingua Franca: Tracing the Survival of Mobilian Jargon in Later Languages and Cultural Artifacts

Posted on June 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction When a contact language falls silent, it rarely vanishes without remainder. The question of “survival” is more delicate than the binary of living versus dead language suggests, because a pidgin can perish as a functioning medium of communication while … Continue reading →

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Data Infrastructure: Mapping the Negative Space

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the data infrastructure that neglect studies will require to function as a mature field. The premise is that a discipline whose central business is the systematic identification of underexplored questions cannot proceed on the basis … Continue reading →

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On the Size and Spacing of Interior Amphoe Under Bravian Transportation and Resource Constraints, with Reference to the Resulting Character of Local Politics and Culture

Posted on May 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provincial College of Porterville Working Paper Series in Covenantal Political Economy Working Paper No. 16 Albrecht Wegmüller, Chair of Public Works and Civil Covenants with reference to the typological work of H. Tschudi and the legal work of D. Hartwell … Continue reading →

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On the Transportation Constraints Surrounding Bravian Capitals and Their Implications for the Size and Provisioning of Seats of Government

Posted on May 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provincial College of Porterville Working Paper Series in Covenantal Political Economy Working Paper No. 15 Albrecht Wegmüller, Chair of Public Works and Civil Covenants with reference to the typological work of H. Tschudi Porterville, Ninth Month 3015 Abstract This paper … Continue reading →

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