Landscape And Community In England

Author : Alan Everitt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826420411

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Landscape and Community in England by Alan Everitt Pdf

England is an old country, more deeply conditioned by its past than perhaps any of us realise. It is also a varied country, particularly in relation to its size; this fact, too, has left its imprint on our past. Antiquity and diversity are the hallmarks of English landscape and society, with evidences of the logic of history evident everywhere we look. In this collection of essays Alan Everitt looks at the interconnections between landscape and community, demonstrating how places, localities, counties and regions all shed light on English society and history as a whole. Covering topics such as regional evolution, lost towns of England, the agrarian landscape in Kent, the English urban inn, and dynasty and community since the 17th century, Everitt's essays cpature the wealth of experience and local idiosyncracies that constitute England's rich history and culture.

Author : Wendy Joy Darby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000323986

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Landscape and Identity by Wendy Joy Darby Pdf

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs perhaps provides the most compelling evidence of the important role landscape plays in people's lives. Not only is individual identity rooted in experiencing landscape, but under the multiple impacts of social fragmentation, global economic restructuring and European integration, membership in recreational walking groups helps recover a sense of community. Moving between the 1750s and the present, this transdisciplinary book explores the powerful role of landscape in the formation of historical class relations and national identity. The author's direct field experience of fell walking in the Lake District and with various locally based clubs includes investigation of the roles gender and race play. She shows how the politics of access to open spaces has implications beyond the immediate geographical areas considered and ultimately involves questions of citizenship.

Author : O. H. Creighton
Publisher : Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1904768679

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Castles and Landscapes by O. H. Creighton Pdf

This paperback edition of a book first published in hardback in 2002 is a fascinating and provocative study which looks at castles in a new light, using the theories and methods of landscape studies.

Author : Wendy Joy Darby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000320589

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Landscape and Identity by Wendy Joy Darby Pdf

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs perhaps provides the most compelling evidence of the important role landscape plays in people's lives. Not only is individual identity rooted in experiencing landscape, but under the multiple impacts of social fragmentation, global economic restructuring and European integration, membership in recreational walking groups helps recover a sense of community. Moving between the 1750s and the present, this transdisciplinary book explores the powerful role of landscape in the formation of historical class relations and national identity. The author's direct field experience of fell walking in the Lake District and with various locally based clubs includes investigation of the roles gender and race play. She shows how the politics of access to open spaces has implications beyond the immediate geographical areas considered and ultimately involves questions of citizenship.

Author : Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351946636

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Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain by Richard W. Hoyle Pdf

A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. In the late middle ages it was hard to see that English agriculture was so very different from that of the continent, but by 1750 levels of agricultural productivity in Britain were well ahead of those general in northern Europe. The country had become much more urban and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture had fallen. Customary modes of behaviour, whilst often bitterly defended, had largely been swept away. Contemporaries were quite clear that a process of improvement had taken place which had seen agriculture reshaped and made much more productive. Exactly what that process was has remained surprisingly obscure. This volume addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Contributors present a variety of cases of how improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape, which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons. Disputes between tenants and landlords, and between neighbouring landlords, over improvement meant that new economic and social identities were forged in the battle between innovation and tradition. The volume also includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers and a case study of what can happen when radical improvement failed. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, but will also provide a useful context for anybody studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.

Author : Jane Grenville
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415207908

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Managing the Historic Rural Landscape by Jane Grenville Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441167439

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An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950 by Tom Williamson Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation at various times and places in the more remote past. This timely volume encompasses both rural and urban environments from 1650 to the mid-twentieth century, drawing on a wide variety of social, historical and ecological sources. It examines the impact of social and economic organisation on the English landscape, biodiversity, the agricultural revolution, landed estates, the coming of large-scale industry and the growth of towns and suburbs. It also develops an original perspective on the complexity and ambiguity of man/animal relationships in this post-medieval period.

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039218721

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Sustainable Residential Landscapes by Carl Smith Pdf

This book is a compilation of 10 recently published academic articles addressing sustainable residential landscape design and planning across geographies, scales, and perspectives: from American rain garden design to South Korean urban forestry; from Mexican community open space design to Australian neighborhood park planning; and from Chinese urban design to Bolivian land-use change. This volume brings together authors from a growing community of landscape sustainability scholars of landscape architecture and architecture; planning and construction; ecology and horticulture; agricultural and environmental sciences; and health, exercise, and nutrition. In summary, these papers address facets of a fundamental challenge for the 21st century: the design and planning of sustainable and resilient human settlements.

Author : Alexandru Calcatinge
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783643904959

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Critical Spaces by Alexandru Calcatinge Pdf

This book relates spatial existence to the challenges arising from the critical times in which we are living and from the supposedly degrading moral nature of societies. It contains contributions from architectural theory and education; urban, spatial, and regional studies; as well as cultural landscape studies. The book critically addresses issues in the context of today's major cultural, moral, political, economical, ecological, ideological, and spiritual crises. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework about our most crucial spaces in the light of crises. (Series: Urban and Spatial Planning / Stadt- und Raumplanung - Vol. 13)

Author : Ian D. Whyte
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861891385

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Landscape and History Since 1500 by Ian D. Whyte Pdf

Landscape and History explores a complex relationship over the past five centuries. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope, drawing on material from social, economic and cultural history as well as from geography, archaeology, cultural geography, planning and landscape history. In recent years, as the author points out, there has been increasing interest in, and concern for, many aspects of landscape within British, European and wider contexts. This has included the study of the history, development and changes in our perception of landscape, as well as research into the links between past landscapes and political ideologies, economic and social structures, cartography, art and literature. There is also considerable concern at present with the need to evaluate and classify historic landscapes, and to develop policies for their conservation and management in relation to their scenic, heritage and recreational value. This is manifest not only in the designation of particularly valued areas with enhanced protection from planning developments, such as national parks and world heritage sites, but in the countryside more generally. Further, Ian D. Whyte argues, changes in European Union policies relating to agriculture, with a greater concern for the protection and sustainable management of rural landscapes, are likely to be of major importance in relation to the themes of continuity and change in the landscapes of Britain and Europe.

Author : Samantha Paul,John Hunt
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910877

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Evolution of a Community: The Colonisation of a Clay Inland Landscape by Samantha Paul,John Hunt Pdf

Chronologically documents the colonisation of a clay inland location north-west of Cambridge at the village of Longstanton and outlines how it was not an area on the periphery of activity, but part of a fully occupied landscape extending back into the Mesolithic period.

Author : Joan Thirsk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : England
ISBN : 0198606192

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Rural England by Joan Thirsk Pdf

From prehistory to the present day, our landscape has been transformed by successive periods of human activity, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built up layers of evidence which offer historians exciting insightsinto land use through the centuries and how rural communities of the past lived their lives. In this ground-breaking study - published in hardback as The English Rural Landscape and now available in paperback - Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the places they describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Eachchapter synthesizes the latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its subject. It is the first book since W. G. Hoskins' definitive study The Making of the English Landscape, published nearly 50 years ago, to do so. The first ten chapters describe the characteristic features of the main landscape types, including fenland, downland, woodland, marshland, and moorland. However geographically scattered areas of a particular landscape type are, they have often been moulded by successive generations in ways that haveproduced strong physical similarities. The second part of the book is made up of five cameo features, each exploring an individual place in detail: the people and the distinctive histories that shaped them. These include the Land Settlement experimental village of Fen Drayton, set up during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and surveysof the very different settlements of Hook Norton in North Oxfordshire and Staintondale in North Yorkshire. Rural England: A History of the Landscape shows us how much of the rural past is still visible if we choose to dig for it. It illustrates how we might go about exploring it for ourselves. It is the definitive work on the history of the English landscape for all would-be landscape and local historydetectives, professional and amateur alike.

Author : James M. Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Kent (England)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111960907

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Kent: Introduction. The records, Alkham to Canterbury by James M. Gibson Pdf

Author : Trevor Rowley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Continuum
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : England
ISBN : 1852855428

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English Landscape in the Twentieth Century by Trevor Rowley Pdf

A study into how and why the English landscape has changed more radically in the 20th century than it did over the previous thousand years.

Author : Erwin Hepperle,Robert Dixon-Gough,Vida Maliene,Reinfried Mansberger,Jenny Paulsson,Andrea Pödör
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Land use
ISBN : 9783728134790

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Land Management by Erwin Hepperle,Robert Dixon-Gough,Vida Maliene,Reinfried Mansberger,Jenny Paulsson,Andrea Pödör Pdf

The European Academy of Land Use and Development (EALD) organizes annual symposiums on topics related to the interactions between people and the land in both rural and open environment. This book contains articles of experts from 14 different European countries with different professional background. It covers the following generalized topics: Interactions between landscape transformation and the structure of social systems and ecosystem services - the role of institutions and stakeholders in land use change - the various impacts of land use changes - coordination requirements in land use planning - approaches to address specific challenges in land management - stumbling blocks of integral land management.