What constitutes a village? What is the significance of the maypole? What was the true purpose of a village green? What is a moot hall? What is the origin of lich-gates? What was the real role of a yeoman? Why have whole villages disappeared over the centuries? This book reveals the answers and provides all the tools a village detective will need. Village history, points out the author, is embedded in the village landscape. Arranged thematically, chapters cover ancient villages; the village green (including maypoles, pubs, and ponds); the village church; cottages and farmsteads; architecture (including lock-ups and market crosses); village casualties; fishing villages; and villages of the modern era. Drawing on dozens of real villages as examples, the author matches up popular images and perceptions with the realities of old village life and history. Illustrating his theories with photographs, maps, and drawings, he shows how amateur enthusiasts can pursue local village history with fascinating results.

How to Read a Village

History

Muir, Richard

Europe

Ebury Press

Modern Political Geography

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Castles & strongholds

Macmillan

Examining every aspect of today's landscape, from rocks, rivers and glaciers to market towns, industrial sites, farms and the Dales folk themselves, Muir explains how this scenery has evolved, how communities have lived and why they have built as they have, why certain breeds of sheep and cattle are seen in the fields, what wildlife one might expect to find, and how the landscape is likely to continue changing. Finally there are chapters giving expert introductions to the special features and history of each individual Dale. Dr Richard Muir is the author of more than 20 books on the British countryside and historical topics and is a winner of the Yorkshire Arts literary prize.

The Dales of Yorkshire: A Portrait

Travel

Pan/Macmillan

An entirely new text for students of political geography following in the footsteps of the author's highly successful Modern Political Geography. Unlike other texts in this field it takes a broad and inclusive view of its subject matter, a pluralist and humanistic approach, and combines coverage of theory and empirical developments drawn from a wide range of countries throughout.

Political Geography: A New Introduction

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Approaches to Landscape introduces and explores the main perspectives in this increasingly popular field of study. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with relevant photographs, maps and diagrams, it provides a comprehensive review of the literature and key concepts for Landscape Studies.

Approaches to Landscape

Reference

Approaches to Landscape introduces and explores the main perspectives in this increasingly popular field of study. The book ranges widely across disciplines, tracing the evolution of ideas about landscape and the contributions of, among others, landscape historians, landscape archaeologists, human geographers, psychologists, art historians, and political scientists. The author pays particular attention to the divergence of approaches between those who apply technical expertise to investigating the development of human-made landscapes and those who are concerned with landscape in its subjective role. Individual chapters focus on the development of landscape history and landscape archaeology, including the contribution of such leading practitioners as Carl Sauer and W. G. Hoskins; the role of perception in landscape studies; power and symbolism; the physical roots of scenery; landscape evaluation; landscape aesthetics; and landscape and place. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout with relevant photographs, maps and diagrams, Approaches to Landscape will be of great appeal to scholars and students of landscape, geography, archaeology, and local history, and also to anyone interested in the interaction between human beings and the landscape.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

TAYLOR, C, / R, MUIR: VISIONS OF THE PAST, LONDON, 1983, 351 p, fotografias,Encuadernacion original, Nuevo,

Visions of the Past

Taylor, Christopher

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

An entirely new text for students of political geography following in the footsteps of the author's highly successful Modern Political Geography. Unlike other texts in this field it takes a broad and inclusive view of its subject matter, a pluralist and humanistic approach, and combines coverage of theory and empirical developments drawn from a wide range of countries throughout.

Political Geography: A New Introduction with Goodes Atlas of Political Geography Set

wiley

Political Geography A New Introduction Richard Muir As the twentieth century draws to a close the apparent political certainties of preceding decades are being seriously challenged by global forms of economic organisation, changing patterns of political identification and looming ecological crisis. Written from a humanistic perspective, Political Geography: A New Introduction explores the effects of the economic globalisation process, showing how it challenges the survival of the sovereign nation-state and how it may be encouraging the development of new political associations at a localised as well as at a transnational level. The unexpected eruption of separatist movements among national minorities is examined, as well as the more intimate identifications associated with the politics of place. The failure of attempts to transplant the European nation-state system to parts of the colonial world is discussed in a chapter which focuses on the current plight of the ‘collapsed’ states of Africa. The recent revival of interest in geopolitics is described, with a review of the history of the approach and an exploration of the new ‘critical geopolitics’. Special emphasis is given to the politics of the environment and the ways in which the environmental movement has been poorly served by the political structures and division of political power in the twentieth-century world. The book concludes with an overview of the ‘New Political Order’ and the changes engendered by the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Published twenty years after the same author’s highly successful Modern Political Geography, this completely new text will be welcomed by a new generation of students for applying the same clarity of thought and exposition to a new agenda of issues and problems.

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How to Read a Village

Modern Political Geography

Castles & strongholds

The Dales of Yorkshire: A Portrait

Political Geography: A New Introduction

Approaches to Landscape

Approaches to Landscape

Visions of the Past

Political Geography: A New Introduction with Goodes Atlas of Political Geography Set

Political Geography: A New Introduction