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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 …
The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales
Av Roger J. P. Kain, Hugh C. Prince
Häftad, 2006
574 kr
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The rural landscape of England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century is minutely depicted in the large-scale plans and schedules drawn for the Tithe Commissioners. Among other features shown on the maps are field boundaries and rights of way, whilst the accompanying schedules record the names of …
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 …
Peasantry to Capitalism
Western Östergötland in the Nineteenth Century
Av Göran Hoppe, John Langton
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, and the relationships between cultivators and others in the process of this transition? How far does it vary from region to region? Is it inherent …
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 …
Migration in Colonial Spanish America
Häftad, 2006
871 kr
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In this collection of innovative essays an international team of contributors provides theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, the studies will attract the attention of all …
An Historical Geography of France
Häftad, 2006
853 kr
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In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, …
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 …
Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance
Häftad, 2007
687 kr
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Nuala C. Johnson explores the complex relationship between social memory and space in the representation of war in Ireland. The Irish experience of the Great War, and its commemoration, is the location of Dr Johnson's sustained and pioneering examination of the development of memorial landscapes, …
Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism
Häftad, 2007
770 kr
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What we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India, and during the second half of the nineteenth century, over ten per cent of the land surface of the earth became protected as a public trust. Sprawling forest reservations, many …
Urbanising Britain
Essays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century
Av Gerry Kearns, Charles W. J. Withers
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Urbanising Britain brings together the work of some leading British historical geographers of the younger generation to consider nineteenth-century urbanization as a process, emphasizing the dimensions of class and community. The essays in this collection reflect the use of social science concepts …
The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of England is subject to waterlogging and is in need of some form of underdraining, rendering the improvement both technically and …
White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition
Häftad, 2010
619 kr
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David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c.1780-1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to attack the slave trade and then the institution of …
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 …
Historical Understanding in Geography
An Idealist Approach
Häftad, 2011
435 kr
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Although many geographers have used historical approaches in the study of human activity, the historical approach as such is not often viewed as a fundamental mode of geographical understanding. Originally published in 1982, this work puts forward a case for historical geography conceived of both …
Urban Historical Geography
Recent Progress in Britain and Germany
Av Gareth Shaw, Dietrich Denecke
Häftad, 2011
687 kr
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Originally published in 1988, this book provides a fascinating comparative review of research in urban historical geography in Britain and West Germany. It draws together a wide range of material on the history of urban development to explore the theoretical and methodological possibilities offered …
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 …
Peasantry to Capitalism
Western Östergötland in the Nineteenth Century
Av Göran Hoppe, John Langton
Inbunden, 1995
2230 kr
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How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers, producing largely for sale? What happens to farm sizes, farming practices, and the relationships between cultivators and others in the process of this transition? How far does it vary from region to region? Is it inherent …
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 …
English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250-1450
Inbunden, 2000
1919 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 …
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 …
An Historical Geography of France
Inbunden, 1994
2398 kr
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In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, …
