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Land and Society in Edwardian Britain
Av Brian Short, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 2005
871 kr
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This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10 was the 'New Domesday' of landownership and …
The Sugar Cane Industry
An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914
Av J. H. Galloway, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
574 kr
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Sugar cane has long been one of the world's most important cash crops, and the sugar cane industry can be regarded as one of the world's oldest industries. The industry involves three basic processes: the cultivation of cane, the milling of the cane to extract the juice and the rendering of the …
Trade and Urban Development in Poland
An Economic Geography of Cracow, from its Origins to 1795
Av F. W. Carter, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 2006
1005 kr
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This 1994 study uses the experience of Cracow to illuminate general patterns of trade and urban growth in central and eastern Europe over several centuries. Dr Carter emphasizes the spatial aspects of commodity analysis during the later medieval and early modern periods, and traces the impact of …
Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective
Essays on the Meanings of some Places in the Past
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Gideon Biger
Häftad, 2006
1005 kr
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Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning: praxis is itself symbolic, and all landscapes are symbolic in practice. Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective draws together fifteen historical geographers to examine landscapes as messages to be decoded, as signs to be deciphered. …
Geography, Science and National Identity
Scotland since 1520
Av Charles W. J. Withers, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 2006
984 kr
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Charles Withers' book brings together work on the history of geography and the history of science with extensive archival analysis to explore how geographical knowledge has been used to shape an understanding of the nation. Using Scotland as an exemplar, the author places geographical knowledge in …
English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250-1450
Av Bruce M. S. Campbell, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 2006
771 kr
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Bruce Campbell's book, first published in 2000, was the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. It deals comprehensively with the cultivation carried out by or for lords on their demesne farms, for which the documentation is more detailed and abundant …
Imperial Visions
Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865
Av Mark Bassin, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Russian empire made a dramatic advance on the Pacific by annexing the vast regions of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. Although this remote realm was a virtual terra incognita for the Russian educated public, the acquisition of an 'Asian Mississippi' …
Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
Av David R. Meyer, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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Hong Kong has remained the global metropolis for Asia since its founding in the 1840s following the Opium Wars between Britain and China. David Meyer traces its vibrant history from the arrival of the foreign trading firms, when it was established as one of the leading Asian business centres, to …
Peasants, Politicians and Producers
The Organisation of Agriculture in France since 1918
Av Mark C. Cleary, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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This book examines the social history and historical geography of the most important agricultural pressure groups in France since about 1918. Some were practical and pragmatic groups (co-operatives, banks and mutual-aid associations), others were inspired by right- or left-wing political movements …
Geographies of England
The North-South Divide, Material and Imagined
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Mark Billinge
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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To what extent has a North-South divide been a structural feature of England's geography during the last millennium and to what extent has it been especially associated with, and recognized during, particular periods in the past? These are the central questions addressed in this pioneering …
Explorations in Historical Geography
Interpretative Essays
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Derek Gregory
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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The debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography has often focused upon the progress to be made in the discipline through an adaptation to new problems, new methodologies, new techniques and new sources. Originally published in 1984, this volume of interpretative essays extends …
Period and Place
Research Methods in Historical Geography
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Mark Billinge
Häftad, 2011
771 kr
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In the years before the publication of this book, there had been a marked interest in the methodology of historical geography as well as in its underlying philosophies and analytical techniques. Originally published in 1982, this volume of essays comprises the revised version of most of the papers …
Geography and History
Bridging the Divide
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Alan R. H. Baker
Inbunden, 2003
1529 kr
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Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines. Alan Baker, an internationally honoured historical geographer, focuses upon the work of North American, British and French historians and geographers but takes a …
Poverty, Ethnicity and the American City, 1840-1925
Changing Conceptions of the Slum and Ghetto
Av David Ward, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
569 kr
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The debate about the relationships among poverty, minorities and the inner city is rooted in evaluations of policies initiated decades ago but the issues of this debate have a much longer ancestry. In many respects the underlying arguments of this debate were formulated during the second quarter of …
Geography and History
Bridging the Divide
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
720 kr
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Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines. Alan Baker, an internationally honoured historical geographer, focuses upon the work of North American, British and French historians and geographers but takes a …
Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles
Av Patricia Baker, Butlin m. fl.
Häftad, 1980
830 kr
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An enormous amount of research into British field systems has been undertaken by historical geographers, economic historians and others since H. L. Gray's classic work on English Field Systems was published. Detailed local studies have been legion, generalized explanations of the origins and …
Human Territoriality
Its Theory and History
Av Robert David Sack, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
653 kr
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First published in 1986, this book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people and things by controlling area. This argument is developed by analysing the possible advantages and disadvantages …
English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century
A Social Geography
Av Richard Dennis, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
586 kr
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To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the …
The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change since 1492
Av David Watts, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 1990
871 kr
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This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of …
An Historical Geography of Modern Australia
The Restive Fringe
Av Joseph Michael Powell, Alan R. H. Baker
Häftad, 1991
720 kr
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This is the first authoritative and comprehensive historical geography of Australia during the second century of white occupation. Originally published in hardback in 1988, Dr Powell's substantial study immediately established itself as essential reading for all those with a serious interest in …
Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective
Essays on the Meanings of some Places in the Past
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Gideon Biger
Inbunden, 1992
2331 kr
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Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning: praxis is itself symbolic, and all landscapes are symbolic in practice. Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective draws together fifteen historical geographers to examine landscapes as messages to be decoded, as signs to be deciphered. …
Marc Bloch, Sociology and Geography
Encountering Changing Disciplines
Av Susan W. Friedman, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1912 kr
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Marc Bloch has been very influential in the development of both history and social science. Comparative historians, historical geographers, and historical sociologists have all pointed to his work as a model. This book is the first detailed examination of the relationship of his work to both …
Agricultural Revolution in England
The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500-1850
Av Mark Overton, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
687 kr
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This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. It combines new evidence with recent findings from the specialist literature, to argue that the agricultural revolution took place in the century after 1750. Taking a broad view of agrarian change, the author …
Land and Society in Edwardian Britain
Av Brian Short, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1861 kr
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This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10 was the 'New Domesday' of landownership and …
Society in Time and Space
A Geographical Perspective on Change
Av Robert A. Dodgshon, Alan R. H. Baker
Inbunden, 1998
1274 kr
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Society in Time and Space is an important book which offers a geographical perspective on societal change, and sets out to show how understanding the geography of such change enables us to appreciate better the basic processes involved. Robert Dodgshon argues that, as a first step, we need to …
Fraternity among the French Peasantry
Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
821 kr
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The individualism of the French peasantry during the nineteenth century has frequently been asserted as one of its most striking characteristics. In this 1999 book, Alan Baker challenges this orthodox view and demonstrates the extent to which peasants continued with traditional, and developed new, …
Power and Pauperism
The Workhouse System, 1834-1884
Av Felix Driver, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
821 kr
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Power and Pauperism aims to provide a new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy. The workhouse system is set in the wider context in an age associated, paradoxically, with both laissez-faire and increasing state …
Marc Bloch, Sociology and Geography
Encountering Changing Disciplines
Av Susan W. Friedman, Alan R. H. Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
720 kr
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Marc Bloch has been very influential in the development of both history and social science. Comparative historians, historical geographers, and historical sociologists have all pointed to his work as a model. This book is the first detailed examination of the relationship of his work to both …
Fraternity among the French Peasantry
Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914
Av Alan R. H. Baker
Inbunden, 1999
2029 kr
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The individualism of the French peasantry during the nineteenth century has frequently been asserted as one of its most striking characteristics. In this 1999 book, Alan Baker challenges this orthodox view and demonstrates the extent to which peasants continued with traditional, and developed new, …
Geographies of England
The North-South Divide, Material and Imagined
Av Alan R. H. Baker, Mark Billinge
Inbunden, 2004
1693 kr
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To what extent has a North-South divide been a structural feature of England's geography during the last millennium and to what extent has it been especially associated with, and recognized during, particular periods in the past? These are the central questions addressed in this pioneering …