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  • Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England

    An Economic and Environmental Perspective

    by Eric L. Jones ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Barriers to Growth

    English Economic Development from the Norman Conquest to Industrialisation

    by Eric L. Jones ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution. It is original and quite different from standard economic history, which has always sought for one prime mover of the industrial revolution after another. These supposed positive forces are usually depicted as novel and little reference is made to inertia. Instead the barriers dealt with here run, in ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History

    From the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Present

    by Eric L. Jones ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and nationally influential owners. Historically, newcomers adopted the behaviour of existing landowners, all of whom presided over a relatively ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History Of The Human Impact

    by Eric L Jones ...
    Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations. It contests the notion of perpetual decline in species composition. The arguments are supported by far more precise historical detail than is usual in books about ecology. The need to take the gains to human ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Cultures Merging

    A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture

    by Eric L. Jones ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    "Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

    by Susan Oosthuizen ...
    Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fight for Beauty

    Our Path to a Better Future

    by Fiona Reynolds ...
    We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can’t be given a monetary value. We’re stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it’s getting harder to find space for the things that really matter but money can’t buy, including our future.Fiona Reynolds proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple – to inspire us ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    by Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Taming the Flood

    Rivers, Wetlands and the Centuries-Old Battle Against Flooding

    by Jeremy Purseglove ...
    ‘Exquisitely written’ Sunday TimesBeautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future generations.In recent years the Somerset Levels suffered from the worst flooding in over twenty years ... Read more

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  • Life in Medieval Landscapes

    People and Places in the Middle Ages

    by Sam Turner, Bob Silvester ...
    Life in Medieval Landscapes presents new studies on key themes in the economic and social history of the medieval landscape. The book draws together papers by medieval historians and archaeologists, with contributions by leading scholars in each field. The first part explores the nature of landscape regions in Britain and Ireland. Chapters explore the use and experience of different types of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yorkshire's Forgotten Fenlands

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    Yorkshire Forgotten Fens is a history of the cultural landscape of the wetlands of the Humber basin and the entire county of Yorkshire stretching from the Humber and north Lincolnshire through the Vale of York, through South Yorkshire and Holderness, to Pickering and beyond. The book draws together the story of a changing landscape, the lost cultures and ways of life, and the wildlife that has ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Famine Plot

    England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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