The Making of the English Landscape
Author: W. G. Hoskins
Publisher: Nature Classics Library
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908213105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic text of English landscape history, ground-breaking and hugely influential.
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The Shaping of the English Landscape: An Atlas of Archaeology from the Bronze Age to Domesday Book
Author: Chris Green
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-09-16
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1803270616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Roman period, and the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) age.
The Making of a Cultural Landscape
Author: Mr Jason Wood
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-11-28
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1409471624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries, the English Lake District has been renowned as an important cultural, sacred and literary landscape. It is therefore surprising that there has so far been no in-depth critical examination of the Lake District from a tourism and heritage perspective. Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake District and its construction as a cultural landscape from the mid eighteenth century to the present day. It critically analyses the relationships between history, heritage, landscape, culture and policy that underlie the activities of the National Park, Cumbria Tourism and the proposals to recognise the Lake District as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It examines all aspects of the Lake District's history and identity, brings the story up to date and looks at current issues in conservation, policy and tourism marketing. In doing so, it not only provides a unique and valuable analysis of this region, but offers insights into the history of cultural and heritage tourism in Britain and beyond.
The Making of the British Landscape
Author: Nicholas Crane
Publisher:
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780753826676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicholas Crane's new book brilliantly describes the evolution of Britain's countryside and cities. It is part journey, part history, and it concludes with awkward questions about the future of Britain's landscapes. Nick Crane's story begins with the melting tongues of glaciers and the emergence of a gigantic game-park tentatively being explored by a vanguard of Mesolithic adventurers who have taken the long, northward hike across the land bridge from the continent. The Iron Age develops into a pre-Roman 'Golden Era' and Crane looks at what the Romans did (and didn't) contribute to the British landscape. Major landscape 'events' (Black Death, enclosures, urbanisation, recreation, etc.) are fully described and explored, and he weaves in the role played by geology in shaping our cities, industry and recreation, the effect of climate (and the Gulf Stream), and of global economics (the Lancashire valleys were formed by overseas markets). The co-presenter of BBC's COAST also covers the extraordinary benefits bestowed by a 6,000-mile coastline. The 12,000-year story of the British landscape culminates in the twenty-first century, which is set to be one of the most extreme centuries of change since the Ice Age.
The Making of the American Landscape
Author: Michael P. Conzen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 1317793706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
The Making of the Cretan Landscape
Author: Oliver Rackham
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780719036477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to help the visitor understand Crete's remarkable landscape, which is just as spectacular as the island's rich archaeological heritage. Crete is a wonderful and dramatic island, a miniature continent with precipitous mountains, a hundred gorges, unique plants, extinct animals and lost civilisations, as well as the characteristic agricultural landscape of olive groves, vines and goats, Jennifer Moody and Oliver Rackham explain how the island's peculiar and extraordinary features, moulded and modified by centuries of human activity, have come together to create the landscape we see today. They also explain the formation and ecology of Crete's beautiful mountains and coastline, and the contemporary threats to the island's fragile natural beauty.
A Sweet View
Author: Malcolm Andrews
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1789144973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss. A Sweet View explores how writers and artists in the nineteenth century shaped the English countryside as a partly imaginary idyll, with its distinctive repertoire of idealized scenery: the village green, the old country churchyard, hedgerows and cottages, scenic variety concentrated into a small compass, snugness and comfort. The book draws on a very wide range of contemporary sources and features some of the key makers of the “South Country” rural idyll, including Samuel Palmer, Myles Birket Foster, and Richard Jefferies. The legacy of the idyll still influences popular perceptions of the essential character of a certain kind of English landscape—indeed for Henry James that imagery constituted “the very essence of England” itself. As A Sweet View makes clear, the countryside idyll forged over a century ago is still with us today.
The English Landscape Garden
Author: Michael Symes
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848023772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eighteenth-century phenomenon of the English landscape garden was so widespread that even today, when so much has been built over or otherwise changed, examples remain throughout England. Although seemingly natural, the English landscape was generally the result of considerable effort, contrivance, and design skill, the glorious outcome of "the art that conceals art." Taking many forms, the landscape garden might involve digging lakes, raising or leveling hills, or planting vast numbers of trees--whatever was required to show nature to best advantage. Richly illustrated throughout, this book uncovers the complex, multi-layered, and wide-ranging story of the landscape garden in England.
The Making of the British Landscape
Author: Francis Pryor
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 014194336X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.
The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century
Author: Trevor Rowley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781852853884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrevor Rowley's new study is a highly topical account of the changes that have taken place and that continue to take place on the country around us.
