[PDF] An Historical Geography Of France eBook

Author : Xavier de Planhol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521322089

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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 : Hugh D. Clout
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1483267245

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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 : Graham Robb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0393333647

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A narrative of exploration, this historical geography explains how the modern nation of France 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. Illustrated.

Author : Robin Alan Butlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0198741790

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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 : Norman John Greville Pounds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521223799

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This book seeks to examine the complex of natural and man-made features that have influenced the course of history and have been influenced by it. It spans the period from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Industrial Revolution in continental Europe, approximately 1500 to 1840.

Author : Hugh D. Clout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1351729934

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This book, first published in 1983, attempts to examine the rural change in France between 1815 and 1914 with a sustained and explicit spatial approach. This volume represents a position in which space and time are meshed in an analysis of the forces underlying land-use and other changes that have contributed much to the making of the French landscape. In this book the shift from the rural economy towards the urban markets in this period is examined thoroughly, using the vast statistical record of cadastral surveys and agricultural enquiries as well as contemporary reports and agricultural journals. The detailed mapping of historical data is a major feature of the treatment. As a scholarly account of a major topic in historical geography, The Land of France 1815-1914 should appear to all students and researchers with interests in historical and rural geography and economic history and especially those specialising in European studies.

Author : Edward Augustus Freeman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385483174

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Henry Clifford Darby
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859896993

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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.