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  • New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins

    Edited by Christopher Dyer, Andrew Hopper, Evelyn Lord, Nigel Tringham ...
    Utilizing the techniques developed by renowned local historian W. G. Hoskins in his landmark study published 50 years ago, Local History in England, this book demonstrates how local history has evolved as a discipline over the last half century. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history subjects that are significant in their own right but which also point to current trends in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farmers, Consumers, Innovators

    The World of Joan Thirsk

    Edited by Christopher Dyer, Richard Jones ...
    Series series Explorations in Local and Regional Histo
    Joan Thirsk was the leading English agrarian historian of the late 20th century. Perhaps best known for her research into regional farming, she also wrote much about rural industry, changing tastes and fashions, and innovations in the rural economy. This book is based on a conference held in her honour (following her death in 2013) that was intended not to look back but rather to identify Joan ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deserted Villages Revisited

    Edited by Christopher Dyer, Richard Jones ...
    Series Book 3 - Explorations in Local and Regional History
    Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s—including why they were deserted, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peasants Making History

    Living In an English Region 1200-1540

    by Christopher Dyer ...
    Peasants have been despised, underrated, or disregarded in the past. Historians and archaeologists are now giving them a more positive assessment, and in Peasants Making History, Christopher Dyer sets a new agenda for this kind of study. Using as his example the peasants of the west midlands of England, Dyer examines peasant society in relation to their social superiors (their lords), their ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Town and Country in the Middle Ages: Contrasts, Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500: No. 22

    Edited by Christopher Dyer, Kate Giles ...
    Series Book 22 - The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
    Proceedings of the Society's conference held at the University of York in April 2002. This book brings together the papers presented at the Society for Medieval Archaeology's spring conference held in York in 2002. The conference set out to reunite urban and rural archaeology. Papers define the differences between town and country, compare the two ways of life, trace the interconnecting links ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of the 11th Century

    Continuities and Transformations

    Edited by Dawn M Hadley, Christopher Dyer ...
    Series series The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
    The Archaeology of the 11th Century addresses many key questions surrounding this formative period of English history and considers conditions before 1066 and how these changed. The impact of the Conquest of England by the Normans is the central focus of the book, which not only assesses the destruction and upheaval caused by the invading forces, but also examines how the Normans contributed to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660

    Tawney's <I>Agrarian Problem</I> Revisited

    by Jane Whittle, Jean Morrin, Jennifer Holt, Keith Wrightson, R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear, William Shannon, Andy Wood, Briony McDonagh, Christopher Dyer, Christopher W Brooks0, David Ormrod1, Elizabeth Griffiths2, Heather Falvey3 ...
    This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more firmly capitalist system of the eighteenth century. This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Making a Living in the Middle Ages

    The People of Britain 8501520

    by Christopher Dyer ...
    Series Book 150 - The New Economic History of Britain seri
    Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • A History of Wales

    by John Davies ...
    Stretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural history of the land that has come to be called Wales.Spanning prehistoric hill forts and Roman ruins to the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the series of strikes by Welsh miners in the late twentieth century, this is the definitive history of an enduring people: a unique and ... Read more

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  • The Anglo-Saxon World

    by Nicholas Higham, M. J. Ryan ...
    The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English life that would endure for the next millennium were shaped. In this authoritative work, N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan reexamine Anglo-Saxon England ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages

    by Martyn Whittock ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master.The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger ... Read more

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