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The making of the English landscape / W.G. Hoskins ; introduction by Keith Thomas.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA600 .H6 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoskins, W. G. (William George), 1908-1992
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscapes--England--History.
- Landscapes.
- England--Historical geography.
- England.
- Historical geography.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings
- Endpapers
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Folio Society, 2005.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Author’s introduction
- The landscape before the English settlement. The pre-Roman landscape
- Western farmsteads and fields
- Roman Britain
- The English settlement. Villages and their fields
- Hamlets
- The shape of villages
- Some Anglo-Saxon estate boundaries
- The Scandinavian settlement
- The colonisation of Medieval England. The landscape in 1086
- The clearing of the Woodlands
- Marsh, Fen and Moor
- Buildings in the landscape
- The Black Death and after. The abandonment of villages
- New colonisation
- New buildings
- Tudor to Georgian England. The landscape in 1500
- The enclosure of the Midland fields
- The flowering of rural England
- Country houses and parks
- Parliamentary enclosure and the landscape. The extent of the enclosure
- The date of parliamentary enclosure
- The new landscape
- The fields
- Hedgerows and trees
- Roads
- Farmhouses
- The Industrial Revolution and the landscape. The Early Industrial landscape
- Water-power and the early mills
- Steam-power and slums
- Roads, canals and railways. Roads
- Canals
- Railways
- The landscape of towns. The planned town
- The open-field town
- The market-town
- The landscape today.
- Notes:
- "The Making of the English Landscape was first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1955 and reprinted by them in 1977 with a new introduction by the author. This edition follows the text of the 1977 printing, with some minor emendations. This edition was published by arrangement with Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd." -- Provided by publisher.
- Typeset by the Folio Society ; Printed by CPI Glasgow ; Bound by Bath Press.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Textured, colored endpapers that coordinate with pictorial clothing binding (image of Raddon Hills, Devon, England) ; book published with protective slip case.
- Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.
- OCLC:
- 60600946
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