The Landscape of Britain

ISBN-13: 9780415157452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 404 str.

Michael Reed; M. Reed

Opis

This text explains the processes at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past. The landscape of late 20th-century Britain is the end product of some 10,000 years of human effort directed not only towards satisfying basic physical needs for food and shelter, but also towards expressing profound spiritual and intellectual aspirations, whether by means of burial mounds or churches, schools or monasteries. Michael Reed shows how each generation makes its own individual contribution without being able entirely to erase those of its predecessors, however remote or distant in time.

Recenzje

'A major work in its field and highly recommended for all students of landscape history.' - Geography

Spis treści

Note on radio-carbon dates in Chapters 1 and 2 Introduction Part I Foundations 1 The land of Britain 2 The first men 3 Roman Britain Part II Medieval Britain 4 People: English, Scots, and Welsh 5 Places: fields and farms, villages and towns 6 Ideas: the church in the landscape Part III Towards the modern world 7 Early modern Britain 8 Georgian Britain 9 Victorian Britain

O autorze

Michael Reed