Themes In The Historical Geography Of France

Author : Hugh D. Clout
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483267245
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes in the Historical Geography of France written by Hugh D. Clout and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes in the Historical Geography of France compiles several selected themes in the historical geography of France. This book discusses the practice of historical geography in France; peopling and the origins of settlement; early urban development; and retreat of rural settlement. The regional contrasts in agrarian structure; reclamation of coastal marshland; petite culture on 1750-1850; and reclamation of wasteland during the 18th and 19th centuries are also elaborated. This compilation likewise covers the historical geography of Western France; urban growth on 1500-1900; and agricultural change and industrial development in the 18th and 19th centuries. This publication is beneficial to historians and geographers aiming to acquire knowledge of the historical geography of France.

Author : Xavier de Planhol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521322089
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical Geography of France written by Xavier de Planhol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, despite its natural physical boundaries and long territorial history. They examine the relatively late development of a more complex territorial geography, involving political, religious, cultural, agricultural and industrial unities and diversities. The conclusion reached is that only in the twentieth century had France achieved a profound territorial unity and only now are the fragmentations of the past being overwritten.

Author : Graham Robb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039306882X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography written by Graham Robb and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty, engaging narrative style…[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing." —New York Times Book Review A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Christian beliefs. French itself was a minority language. Graham Robb describes that unknown world in arresting narrative detail. He recounts the epic journeys of mapmakers, scientists, soldiers, administrators, and intrepid tourists, of itinerant workers, pilgrims, and herdsmen with their millions of migratory domestic animals. We learn how France was explored, charted, and colonized, and how the imperial influence of Paris was gradually extended throughout a kingdom of isolated towns and villages. The Discovery of France explains how the modern nation came to be and how poorly understood that nation still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France—past and present—remains to be discovered. A New York Times Notable Book, Publishers Weekly Best Book, Slate Best Book, and Booklist Editor's Choice.

Author : Robin Alan Butlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198741790
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical Geography of Europe written by Robin Alan Butlin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Historical Geography of Europe provides 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 text takes account of the volume of relevant research and literature that has been published over the past two or three decades, in order to achieve a 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.

Author : Henry Clifford Darby
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780859896993
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relations of History and Geography written by Henry Clifford Darby and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of twelve previously unpublished essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas. The essays are divided into three quartets of studies relating to England, France and the United States.

Author : Norman J. G. Pounds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521322171
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical Geography of Europe written by Norman J. G. Pounds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2,500 years of Europe's history. Professor Pounds argues that three factors have determined the locations of human activities: the environment, the attitudes and forms of social organization of the many different peoples of Europe and lastly, the levels of technology. Within the broad framework of the interrelationships of environment, society and technology, several important themes pursued from the fifth century BC to the early twentieth century: settlement and agriculture, the growth of cities, the development of manufacturing and the role of trade. Underlying each of these themes are the discussions of political organization and population. Although the book is based in part of Professor Pound's magisterial three volumes An Historical Geography of Europe (1977, 1980, 1985), it was written especially for students and readers interested in a general survey of the subject.

Author : Josef Konvitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226450940
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartography in France, 1660-1848 written by Josef Konvitz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French scientists, engineers, and public officials were responsible for the most important and distinctive innovations in cartography in eighteenth-century Europe. By expanding the analytical uses of maps, by establishing unprecedented standards of accuracy, and by nurturing institutional frameworks to sustain mapping projects over many years, the French contributed to one of the central concepts of modern times: that man, through direct observation and accumulated information can better understand and manage his affairs. Concentrating on how and why new concepts and techniques of making and using maps were introduced, Josef Konvitz skillfully traces the modernization of cartography during the French Enlightenment. The story he unfolds is not merely a narrative of who did what, but an analysis of how the map itself influenced attitudes toward the land and the consequent effects on planning and the development of resources. Throughout, Konvitz demonstrates the significant relationship between cartography and political, economic, and military life. He emphasizes efforts to enlarge the practical applications of maps in government and the impact of government policy on the evolution of cartography.

Author : Philippe Pinchemel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521105958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France: A Geographical, Social and Economic Survey written by Philippe Pinchemel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available to the English-speaking world the most authoritative single survey of the geography of France yet published. A translation from the fully revised French edition of 1981, updated by additional material provided by the authors, Pinchemel's work embraces every aspect of the relationship between the social and the spatial in contemporary France and provides the reader with a vast quantity of detailed information on specific geographical questions. The work is divided into eight parts and within that overall structure each section is further subdivided for ease of reference. The author's concern for clarity of exposition is reflected in the numerous tables, maps, charts and diagrams that supplement the text.

Author : Alan R. H. Baker
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 0521249686
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Historical Geography written by Alan R. H. Baker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary 1984 volume extends the debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography.

Author : Vincent Berdoulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the French School of Geography (1870-1914) written by Vincent Berdoulay and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: