Routledge Revivals: The Making of Urban Scotland (1978)
Routledge Revivals: The Making of Urban Scotland (1978)

Author: Ian H. Adams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 135103376X

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Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins to the present day. Most of the material is based on research in Scotland’s archives, housed in the Scottish Record Office. Special emphasis is placed on the causes of economic change and its repercussions upon Scottish town life. The urban stresses of the nineteenth century are analysed in detail, as well as the subsequent emergence of Scotland as Western Europe’s pre-eminent council house society. The unique character of Scotland’s housing occupies two chapters and for the first time the whole panoply of the statuary origins of the council house landscape is exposed.

Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)
Urban Decline (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Clark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 113509506X

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In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. When this book was first published in 1989, however, a massive process of counter-urbanization was underway, which saw the loss of population and jobs in cities and a pronounced urban to rural shift. This book analyses the causes and consequences of urban decline in Britain and the developed world during this period and beyond, and assesses the implications for urban planning and policy. David Clark’s relevant and comprehensive title will be of value to students with a particular interest in urban geography and development.

Urban Problems (Routledge Revivals)
Urban Problems (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Michael Pacione

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1134599293

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Urban problems and their resolution represent one of the major challenges for planners and decision makers in the modern world. This book, first published in 1990, makes a major contribution to the field, presenting an international and interdisciplinary approach to the challenges presented by the urban environment. The coverage is comprehensive, ranging from the economic and political dimensions of the capitalist system, to the issues of poverty and deprivation and questions about housing equity. This is an essential reference guide to social, economic and environmental problems in urban areas, which is of great value to students of planning, urban studies, geography and sociology.

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter

Author: S. Oliver

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0230555004

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Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.

People's History and Socialist Theory (Routledge Revivals)
People's History and Socialist Theory (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Raphael Samuel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1317206924

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First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other. It takes stock of then recent work, explores the main new lines, and looks at the political and ideological circumstances shaping the direction of historical work, past and present. The scope of the book is international with contributions on African history, fascism and anti-fascism, French labour history, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. It also incorporates feminist history and gives attention to some of the leading questions raised for social history by the women’s movement.

Progress in Political Geography (Routledge Revivals)
Progress in Political Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Michael Pacione

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1134597681

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Since the 1970s, the field of political geography has undergone a significant transformation, where new methodologies have been implemented to investigate the exercise of the power of the state within the urban environment. First published in 1985, the essays in this collection addressed the growing need to assess the academic revisions that had been taking place and provide a reference point for future developments in the discipline. Still of great relevance, the essays consider the most prominent themes in areas of key importance to political geography, including theory and methodology, minority groups, local government and the geography of elections. This volume will be of significant value for students of political geography, urban demography and town planning.

Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe (Routledge Revivals)
Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe (Routledge Revivals)

Author: MAXINE Berg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1317952294

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This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early industrial expansion. The papers examine aspects of industrial structure and work organisation, including women’s work, and highlight the conflict and compromise between work traditions and the emergence of a market culture. With an overarching introduction providing a background to European manufacturing, this title will be of particular interest to students of social and economic history researching early industrial Europe and the concurrent emergence of a material, consumer culture.

Progress in Rural Geography (Routledge Revivals)
Progress in Rural Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Michael Pacione

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1134598459

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This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century. Although traditional areas of study such as agriculture and the land-use patterns of the countryside remained important, scholars also began to consider rural transport, employment, housing and policy, as well as to develop new theories and methodologies for application to study. The chapters included here addressed the need for a review of the changes that had taken place within the field of rural geography, and as such provide an essential background to students with an interest in rural demography, planning and agriculture.

Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals)
Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Doreen Massey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-10

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1135163049

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This book, first published in 1985, explores the connections in academic research between theoretical positions, political perspectives and policy prescriptions. Five different groups of authors, who have written broadly in the fields of industrial and social geography, discuss this relationship and illustrate it with recent work. Around their contributions, the editors have constructed a book that is both a guide to the research debate for students at all levels and a handbook, with notes and questions, for those about to undertake their own research projects. Though designed primarily for use on undergraduate geography, urban studies and applied economics courses, its broad debate on research method is important for all professional and postgraduate researchers in the social sciences.

Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals)
Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Michael Pacione

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1134599854

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First published in 1986, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. It discusses the contemporary state of the art and surveys new research developments and new thinking in the major branches of the subject. It thereby provides an introductory guide to contemporary trends and forms a reference point for future development in the subject.