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to see evidence of alternative, or subcultures in the landscape. Within the category of alternative culture, Cosgrove differentiated between residual cultures (historic cultures that have disappeared or are in the process of fading away), emergent cultures (those that are just now appearing), and excluded cultures (those that are actively or passively excluded by the dominant culture).
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Cosgrove was about to become chairman of the geography department at UCLA, when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2006. He had been named Getty
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in 1988. He delivered the influential
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in early modern Europe (1450–1650), and of the history of
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