An historical geography of Europe
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An historical geography of Europe
Clarendon Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
An Historical Geography of Europe represents the first multi-authored comprehensive study on the subject. It provides the reader with an analytical and explanatory account of European historical geography from classical times to the modern period, including the vast changes to landscape, settlements, population, and in political and cultural structures and character that have taken place since 1500. The book takes account of the vast volume of relevant
research and literature that has been published over the past two or three decades, in order to achieve a unique coverage and synthesis of this very broad range of evidence and opinion, and has tried to engage with many of the main themes and debates to give a clear indication of changing ideas and
interpretations of the subject.
This book brings together British and European authors from a number of disciplines who have considerable distinction in the various fields of historical geography and related fields, including a significant number who have already written on the wider problem of European historical geography. It is amply illustrated with maps and diagrams to present many of the issues in a visual form.
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1. The Human Geography of Europe: A Prehistoric Perspective
- 2. The Classical World
- 3. The Socio-Political Map of Europe, 400-1500
- 4. Rural Settlement in Europe, 400-1500
- 5. Towns and Trade, 400-1500
- 6. Geographical Knowledge and the Expansion of the European World After 1490
- 7. The Changing Political Map: Geography, Geopolitics, and the Idea of Europe since 1500
- 8. Changes in Population and Society 1500 to the Present
- 9. The Changing Cultural Geography of Europe since 1500
- 10. Rural Europe since 1500: Areas of Innovation and Change
- 11. Rural Europe since 1500: Areas of Retardation and Tradition
- 12. Industrial Change 1500-1740 and the Problem of Proto-Industrialization
- 13. Industrialization 1740 to the Present
- 14. The Urbanisation of Europe since 1500
- 15. Changing Patterns of Trade and Interaction since 1500
- 16. Towards an Environmental History of Europe
- Index
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