ISBN10: 0198606192, ISBN13: 9780198606192, [publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford] Softcover From prehistory to the present day, our landscape has been transformed by successive periods of human activity, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built up layers of evidence which offer historians exciting insights into land use through the centuries and how rural communities of the past lived their lives. In this ground-breaking study - published in hardback as The English Rural Landscape and now available in paperback - Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the places they describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Each chapter synthesizes the latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its subject. It is the first book since W. G. Hoskins' definitive study The Making of the English Landscape, published nearly 50 years ago, to do so. The first ten chapters describe the characteristic features of the main landscape types, including fenland, downland, woodland, marshland, and moorland. However geographically scattered areas of a particular landscape type are, they have often been moulded by successive generations in ways that have produced strong physical similarities. The second part of the book is made up of five cameo features, each exploring an individual place in detail: the people ...

Oxford University Press, Oxford, Date: 2002. Revised Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. First softcover edition. Crisp clean covers, tight binding, clean pages and inside covers. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0198606192. ISBN/EAN: 9780198606192. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50023111001. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. 9780198606192 2002. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198606192 9780198606192 [GB]