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Cambridge University Press Historical Understanding in Geography An Idealist Approach 3 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press The Tithe Maps of England and Wales
Book SynopsisThe tithe maps of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales are much used by historians, geographers, lawyers, planners and others who need accurate information about land and its ownership and use in the past. This book is a detailed catalogue and analysis of these maps offering an invaluable research tool for users.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Tithe and tithe commutation; 2. County-by-county catalogues and analyses of the tithe surveys (arranged alphabetically by county: 55 entries); 3. The tithe maps of England and Wales: a 'national' survey?; Appendices; Place-name; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Urban Historical Geography Recent Progress in Britain and Germany 10 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 10
Book SynopsisOriginally 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 by comparative surveys of contrasting national and regional urban expenses. The chronological focus of the essays ranges in time from the medieval period onwards, and the contributors explore not only the specifically intellectual consequences of their empirical research, but also its policy implications for urban planners and conservationists. Serious extended comparative debate has hitherto been absent from the field of urban historical geography as a whole: this volume sought to reverse that trend, and in so doing to establish a fresh research agenda for an important and expanding discipline.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Introduction Dietrich Deneke and Gareth Shaw; Part I. Recent Trends in Urban Historical Geography: 2. Research in British urban historical geography Richard Dennis and Hugh Prince; 3. Research in German urban historical geography Dietrich Denecke; Part II. The Evolution of Urban Settlement and the Development of the Medieval Town: 4. The town in the Norman colonisations of the British Isles Brian Graham; 5. Urban archaeological research in Germany: a regional review of medieval topographic development Hans Stephan; 6. Recent development in early medieval urban history and archaeology in England Chris Dyer; 7. Urban archaeology in Germany and the study of topographic, functional and social structures Heiko Steuer; 8. English medieval town planning Terry Slater; Part III. Social Areas and Social Patterns: 9. Economy and society in eighteenth-century English towns: Bristol in the 1770s Elizabeth Baigent; 10. Social status and place of residence in preindustrial German towns: recent studies in social topography Dietrich Deneke; 11. The economic and social spatial structure of an early industrial town: Aachen Claudia Erdman; 12. The social geography of nineteenth-century British cities: a review Colin Pooley and Richard Lawton; 13. Patrician urban landlords: research on patronal relations in nineteenth-century 'estate-towns' in the British Isles Lindsay Proudfoot; Part IV. Urban Functional Change: 14. The development of urban centrality in England and Wales Harold Carter; 15. The persistence and dynamics of office functions in West German cities since the late nineteenth century Heinz Heineberg and Norbert DeLang; 16. Recent research on the commercial structure of nineteenth-century British cities Gareth Shaw; Part V. Urban Morphology and the Historicity of Townscape: 17. Morphogenesis, morphological regions and secular human agency in the historic townscape, as exemplified by Ludlow M. R. G. Conzen; 18. The metrological analysis of early modern planned towns Jürgen Lafrenz; 19. Recent developments in urban morphology Jeremy Whitehand; 20. Historical geography and conservation planning in British towns Terry Slater and Gareth Shaw; Part VI. Conclusions: 21. Future developments in Anglo-German studies of urban historical geography Dietrich Deneke and Gareth Shaw; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Geography in Classical Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press A New Historical Geography of England Ater 1600
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Cambridge University Press English Seigniorial Agriculture 12501450 31 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 31
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Cambridge University Press Human Territoriality Its Theory and History 7 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Peasants Politicians and Producers The Organisation of Agriculture in France since 1918 14 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press THE BEAGLE RECORD SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL RECORDS AND WRITTEN ACCOUNTS OF THE VOYAGE OF HMS BEAGLE
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Cambridge University Press Historical Geography of Europe 1800 1914
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Dictionary of English PlaceNames Based on the Collections of the English PlaceName Society
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Cambridge University Press Urbanising Britain Essays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century 17 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press The West Indies Patterns of Development Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 8 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Historical Geography Mod Australia The Restive Fringe 11 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective Essays on the Meanings of some Places in the Past 18 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Urban History of Britain Volume 3
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Cambridge University Press The Tithe Maps of England and Wales
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Cambridge University Press Cities in Modernity
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Cambridge University Press Cities in Modernity Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space 18401930 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 40
Book SynopsisWhat made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities of this period, drawing its evidence principally from London, New York and Toronto. The book discusses both the cultural experience of modernity and the material modernization of cities, placing special emphasis on their historical geographies, on the production, representation and use of urban space. The opening chapters present new ways of seeing cities in political and religious discourse, social survey, mapping, art and literature. The book then concentrates on new kinds of public and private spaces, such as apartment buildings, office blocks and department stores, and the networks of communication between them. An important theme throughout is the gendered experience of the new types of environment. The book will appeal to scholars and students of historical geography, urban history and cultural studies.Trade Review'… a very erudite and incisive piece of work, which draws strength from the rich and diverse research that informs it. It expertly negotiates and synthesizes work within architectural history, geography, building, cultural and feminist studies, sociology, business, and finance, creating an accessible, engaging, and informative work, of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars, researchers, and students.' H-HistGeog'With its subtle argumentation and rich use of sources, Cities in Modernity is sure to be of interest to students and specialists of urban history, geography, and culture, and will undoubtedly become an essential reference for those interested in the tensions and contradictions that make urban modernity so pervasive an object of inquiry.' Nicolas Kenny, H-Urban'By using the lives of characters from well-known novels, Dennis is able to contextualize his study with the experience of urban life across ninety years. This is an impressive addition to works on the nature of urban communities, and useful for historians of the city.' Urban History'Dennis' important book is a bridge that allows urban scholars segregated by academic disciplines to journey to new destinations.' Reviews in History'The book is brimming with insights and connections drawn across time and space … This book truly melds technology and culture. It deserves the attention of all scholars interested in how the modern city came to be … Cities in Modernity provides both a critical model and a prime example of the essentially interrelated nature of both aspects of the modern city.' Project Muse'Dozens of illustrations from the period help bring the relatively distant era alive for the reader, and the voluminous footnotes both attest to Dennis's detailed research and, frequently, offer additional insights.' American Society of Civil Engineers' … the range of this book creates the possibility for such debates over the fences which separate our proliferating disciplinary specialisms. Dennis's work will instruct and provoke in equal measure, and is set to become a key reference for students of modern urban history in Britain and North America.' American Historical Review' … leans upon concepts embedded in studies of urban form and has much to offer readers interested in the cultural manufacture of urban space. Expertly researched and drawing on a variety of source materials, there is much for scholars of urban and cultural studies, geography, and history to take from this book. Dennis should be congratulated for composing a clear and lively account of spatial production, consumption and improvement.' Urban MorphologyIt is a synthetic work that will seem familiar and yet still fascinating to scholars of the nineteenth-century city. The book is built upon the work of several decades of historians, geographers, literary critics and art historians who have explored diverse aspects of metropolitan modernity … Dennis does not stray too far afield from the principal avenues of bourgeois London and its environs. he does, however, consider how class, gender and, to a lesser extent, race shaped the architecture and representation of the metropolis.' The London Journal'… an ambitious work in the way it offers a highly nuanced reading of the complexities of modernist urban geographies … That Cities in Modernity attends to both the modernist and realist artistic traditions is pleasing for it rearticulates the continuities, and not just the changes, of the period.' H-Net Reviews'Richard Dennis's book addresses the modern city through the eyes of fictional urbanites, in various novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries … The book contains an interesting discussion of the human-scale experience of technology … This is an impressive additiion to works on the nature of urban communities, and useful for historians of the city.' Urban History'Cities in Modernity constitutes not only a much welcomed addition to a body of literature whose growth has been less vigorous than other geographic subdisciplines … [the book] is valuable, necessary, and probablyu canonical' I've already assigned it to my students. Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, Journal of Historical Geography'As it stands, the book is remarkable for its breadth as well as depth. it will attract a wide readership, especially from those interested in geography, urban history, cultural, leisre and urban studies.' Planning Perspectives'Cities in Modernity remains a formidable accomplishment; it should encourage further efforts to position Canadian urban development within a global historical context.' The Canadian Historical Review'… the book is remarkable … for its breadth as well as depth, and it should attract a wide readership, especially from geography, urban history, cultural, leisure and urban studies.' British Journal of Canadian StudiesTable of Contents1. Building bridges; 2. The idea of progress; 3. Surveying the city; 4. Writing and picturing the city; 5. Improving streets; 6. Public spaces - practised places; 7. Building suburbia; 8. Consuming suburbia; 9. Mansion flats and model dwellings; 10. Geographies of downtown: office spaces; 11. Geographies of downtown: the place of shopping; 12. Networked cities.
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Cambridge University Press Historians Guide to Early British Maps A Guide to the Location of Pre1900 Maps of the British Isles Preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland 18 Guides and Handbooks Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Land and Society in Edwardian Britain 25 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 25
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Cambridge University Press Society in Time and Space
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Cambridge University Press Global Lives Britain and the World 15501800 41 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 41
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating and unique account of Britain's rise as a global imperial power told through the lives of over forty individuals from a huge range of backgrounds. Miles Ogborn relates and connects the stories of monarchs and merchants, planters and pirates, slaves and sailors, captives and captains, reactionaries and revolutionaries, artists and abolitionists from all corners of the globe. These dramatic stories give new life to the exploration of the history and geography of changing global relationships, including settlement in North America, the East India Company's trade and empire, transatlantic trade, the slave trade, the rise and fall of piracy, and scientific voyaging in the Pacific. Through these many biographies, including those of Anne Bonny, Captain Cook, Queen Elizabeth I, Pocahontas, and Walter Ralegh, early modern globalisation is presented as something through which different people lived in dramatically contrasting ways, but in which everyone played a part.Trade Review'Today's most enthralling histories tell grand narratives of empires, oceans and peoples but can often lose touch with the human scale. Like some panoramic Plutarch, Miles Ogborn uses parallel lives to illustrate global processes. Global Lives weaves more than forty succinct biographies - some familiar, like those of Sir Walter Ralegh and Captain Cook, others hitherto obscure, like the Madras merchant Kasi Viranni's and the Jamaican slave-woman Sarah Affir's - into a kaleidoscopic account of Britain's rise to world power. Ogborn's remarkable book brings an empire to life through the lives that built the empire. David Armitage, Harvard University'Global Lives tells a wonderfully accessible story of how the world changed between the sixteenth century and the eighteenth century - how new forms of connection were made, across the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, how the British Empire came to dominate substantial parts of the world. Elizabethan adventurers, Madras merchants, transatlantic seamen, Caribbean planters, Irish rebels, enslaved Africans, fill the pages of this enlivening narrative with their diverse and complicated stories of geographical connections and dislocations, empowerment and resistance, violence and dispossession. This is a richly peopled history of global expansion - and one to be greatly welcomed by students, teachers, and readers of all kinds.' Catherine Hall, University College London'Global Lives breathes new life into world history by focusing on individual experiences of what we now refer to as globalization between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Rather than a grand narrative of the march of modernity, this is a variegated tapestry of lives made and unmade by trade, war, slavery, empire and Enlightenment. Brilliantly realized through a series of compelling sketches of the lives of over forty individuals - ranging from traders, sailors and adventurers to philosophers, rulers and slaves - this is a richly evocative and challenging account which raises important questions not only about global change, but also about ways of writing about it.' Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London'Miles Ogborn's Global Lives stages the grand drama of Britain's relations with the world between the Elizabethan Age and the Georgian era, parading a rich cast of skilfully drawn and extraordinarily diverse characters. Interweaving big historical themes with the everyday experiences of men and women, princes and paupers, and the inhabitants of four continents, Ogborn's fascinating mix of macro and micro history should appeal both to students and the general reader.' John Brewer, California Institute of Technology'This book will prove a gold-mine for teachers seeking original and riveting tales to tell their students …' The Historical Association'… gives a new meaning to 'geography', one which this reviewer wishes has been the case in his undergraduate days.' Contemporary Review'Miles Ogborn has constructed a rich and fascinating narrative of the rise of the British Empire that places it squarely within the concerns of world history and invites classroom discussion of issues of methodology and interpretation.' World History Bulletin'Written in an accessible and pithy manner, this book is an important text to those new to global history and should find its way onto the reading list of many a global history module … It should also appeal to the more established practitioners within the field, as an exemplary instance of how global history can be written differently.' Journal of Global History'Adroitly blending the vast scope of historical geography with the contextualized specificity of individual biography, Ogborn brings to life Britain's central role in the creation of the early modern global world.' Journal of Interdisciplinary History'… wonderful reading, full of good stories and important connections and insights, and would make a valuable addition to any course on the history of early modern Britain or the British Empire.' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History'… a richly layered and analytically controlled survey of Britain's expanding global presence in the early modern period. The book's chief strength lies in Ogborn's ability to filter the forces of world history through the experiences of forty-two diverse and compelling individuals who, to varying degrees, helped to shape that history … vibrant synthesis of macro- and microhistory.' Journal of British Studies'Many of the subsections are titled according to the format of 'The World of Sarah Affir 'and 'The World of William Dampier'' but this is much more than a series of mini-biographies, and, in combination with the more broadly themed sections dealing with subjects like slavery, trade, violence and enlightenment, they allow Ogborn to produce a work that allows the reader an insight into the variegated personal experiences of empire.' Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature'Miles Ogburn wrote Global Lives to highlight human agency in the development of the British Empire, and 'to put the life back into global history' … He succeeds on both counts … constructs a rich, complex and multifaceted story of an empire's expansion by fits and starts. … Well-written, thoughtful and sympathetic, Global Lives deserves broad appeal for undergraduates, as well as the general public.' The Geographical JournalTable of Contents1. Global lives; 2. The Elizabethan world; 3. Savage tales: settlement in North America; 4. East meets west: the English East India Company in India; 5. Into the Atlantic: the triangular trade?; 6. Maritime labour: sailors and the seafaring world; 7. Maritime violence: buccaneers, privateers and pirates; 8. Human cargo: the Atlantic slave trade; 9. Sugar islands: plantation slavery in the Caribbean; 10. In black and white: fighting against the slave trade; 11. Navigation and discovery: voyagers of the Pacific; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Town and Country in Europe 13001800 5 Themes in International Urban History Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Geography Science and National Identity Scotland since 1520 33 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 33
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Cambridge University Press Fraternity among the French Peasantry Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley 18151914 28 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 28
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Cambridge University Press Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in NineteenthCentury America
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Cambridge University Press Evolutionary History Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth Studies in Environment and History
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Cambridge University Press Biology of Plagues
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Cambridge University Press Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism 34 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 34
Book SynopsisWhat we now know of as environmentalism began with the establishment of the first empire forest in 1855 in British India. The empire forestry movement spread rapidly throughout the world, and Gregory Barton's study looks at the origins of environmentalism in a global perspective.Trade Review'The central thesis of this challenging book is that imperialism and environmentalism have a shared past that many scholars, especially those on the political left, wish to deny … I have much sympathy with this brave … deconstruction of the sources of practical environmentalism.' Philip Stott, History Today'This book is well researched, easy to read, extremely good value and, for landscape historians interested in the interaction of human agency and environmental history it provides a succession of interesting case studies grounded in the landscape of the New Orleans river front.' Landscape HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The great interference; 3. Empire forestry and British India; 4. Environmental innovation in British India; 5. Empire forestry and the colonies; 6. Empire forestry and American environmentalism; 7. From empire forestry to Commonwealth forestry; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Landscape and Power in Early China The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045771 BC
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Cambridge University Press Geographies of Regulation Policing Prostitution in NineteenthCentury Britain and the Empire 43 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 43
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Cambridge University Press Historical GIS Technologies Methodologies and Scholarship 39 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 39
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Cambridge University Press Meaning and Identity in a Greek Landscape
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Cambridge University Press The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707
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Cambridge University Press Designing Boundaries in Early China
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Cambridge University Press Science on the Roof of the World
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Cambridge University Press Locusts of Power
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Cambridge University Press Locusts of Power
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Cambridge University Press The Observatory Experiment
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Cambridge University Press Round Table Conference Geographies
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Riverscapes
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Cambridge University Press Fueling Sovereignty
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Cambridge University Press Fueling Sovereignty
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Cambridge University Press Immigration and Borders in Ancient Egypt
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Cambridge University Press The Political Ecology of Violence
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Cambridge University Press Peychev S Nature of the Ottoman City
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Cambridge University Press The Draining of the Fens
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1956, as the second edition of a 1940 original, this book forms the companion volume to Medieval Fenland. Together these volumes provide a consummately researched account of changing conditions within a fascinating region. The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer.Table of ContentsEditor's preface; Preface; Preface to C. U. P. L. E. reprint; List of maps and diagrams; List of plates; Part I. The Prelude to the Draining, 1500–1600: 1. The dissolution of the monarchies; 2. Preliminary experiments in draining; Part II. The Fen Project, 1600–63: 3. Draining activity before the Civil War; 4. Arguments, replies and disorders; 5. Draining activity after the Civil War; Part III. The Consequences of the Draining: 6. Outfall difficulties; 7. The lowering of the surface of the Fens; 8. The windmill; Part IV. The Eighteenth Century: The Age of the Windmill: 9. The southern Fenland; 10. The northern Fenland; 11. Economic activity; Part V. The Nineteenth Century: Triumphs and Difficulties: 12. The tidal rivers and their outfalls; 13. Administrative problems; 14. The steam-engine; 15. Agricultural consequences; Part VI. Epilogue: Conditions after 1900; Appendices; Sources and bibliography; Index.
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