The Peopling Of Britain

Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198297599
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peopling of Britain written by Paul Slack and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final frontier for successive waves of colonists, each bringing its own set of cultural adaptations and its own ethos into the landscape. Over time both landscape and culture have matured from raw frontier to settled centre, moulded by the advent of agriculture, towns, and industry, and by streams of migration both within Britain and from outside. The chapters in this book - by archaeologists, historians, and geographers - present an interdisciplinary and accessible account of that long process. Together they trace the various phases of the story, showing how much of it has only recently been unearthed, and how much remains to be discovered.

Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191544752
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peopling of Britain written by Paul Slack and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-03-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final frontier for successive waves of colonists, each bringing its own set of cultural adaptations and its own ethos into the landscape. Over time both landscape and culture have matured from raw frontier to settled centre, moulded by the advent of agriculture, towns, and industry, and by streams of migration both within Britain and from outside. The chapters in this book - by archaeologists, historians, and geographers - present an interdisciplinary and accessible account of that long process. Together they trace the various phases of the story, showing how much of it has only recently been unearthed, and how much remains to be discovered.

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307798461
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peopling of British North America written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution and is the first major volume in the Peopling project, is also available from Vintage Books.

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307798526
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyagers to the West written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. "Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies

Author : Nick Merriman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Peopling of London written by Nick Merriman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany a Museum of London exhibition from November 1993 to May 1994, this book sets out to show that London has had a cosmopolitan population from its very beginnings.

Author : Stephen Oppenheimer
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the British written by Stephen Oppenheimer and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has long maintained that the Anglo-Saxon overtaking of the Iron Age Celts was the origin of the British people. Celtic Britain reconstructs the peopling of Britain — through a study of genetics, climatology, archaeology, language, culture, and history — and overturns that myth and others. The Anglo-Saxons, who supposedly conquered the Celts, contributed only five to ten percent of the British gene pool. The "Atlantic Celts," long believed to have migrated to Britain from Central Europe around 300 BC during the Iron Age, can be linked genetically to the people of Basque country. And linguistic evidence suggests that, besides Celtic languages, a Germanic-type language similar to Norse was also spoken in Britain long before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Oppenheimer explaines the surprising roots of the present-day cultural identities of the English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703462
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbarous Years written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter—not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call'd England written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1670 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
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Download or read book The peopling of British North America written by Bernard Bailyn and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorling, Danny
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447311361
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People and Places written by Dorling, Danny and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updating the 2001 volume People and Places: A 2001 Census Atlas of the UK, this authoritative book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the current social geography of the United Kingdom, how it has changed, and where it is going. Key features include an illuminating graphic summary of over 100,000 fundamental demographic statistics; new cartographic projections and techniques used throughout; an appendix incorporating rankings for twenty-five selected topics by local authority; and comparison with the 2001 census to identify national and local trends, with analysis of their implications for future policy. Complete with additional digital content that uses maps, charts, and tables to highlight important issues and topics, this new edition of People and Places is an accessible guide to social change over the past ten years as the United Kingdom has moved from boom to recession.