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The Making of the English Landscape

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UPC:
9780340399712
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
1990-01-01
Author:
W. G. Hoskins;Christopher Taylor;Andrew Butler
Language:
english
Edition:
Reissue
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First published in 1955, this is an account of man's effect on his landscape, from pre-history to the motorway age, by the founder of historical geography as a university discipline. It is here republished with new pictures and updated notes to supplement the original text. Former professor at Oxford and Leicester, W.G. Hoskins is acknowledged as a historian who can communicate with the general reader as well as with other historians. His previous books include Provincial England , Local History in England and The Age of Plunder .