Historical Geography Books

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31. Managing the Historic Rural Landscape

    Edited by Jane Grenville

    Series: Issues in Heritage Management

    Published April 21st 1999 by Routledge
32. The American Cities and Technology Reader

    Wilderness to Wired City

    Edited by Gerrylyn K. Roberts

    Series: Cities and Technology

    Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian settlements to the 'wired city' concept of the 1960s and internet communications of the 1990s.Its...

    Published April 14th 1999 by Routledge
33. Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic

    Landscapes, Monuments and Memory

    By Mark Edmonds

    Archaeological evidence suggests that Neolithic sites had many different, frequently contradictory functions, and there may have been other uses for which no evidence survives. How can archaeologists present an effective interpetation, with the consciousness that both their own subjectivity, and...

    Published March 10th 1999 by Routledge
34. Conservation and the City

    By Peter Larkham

    It is a widely held belief that cities must change, or they will wither and die. One of the key problems of urbanization is how to cope with these changes while retaining the structures constructed and maintained by previous generations. Conservation and the City is a study of conservation and...

    Published July 3rd 1996 by Routledge
35. International Dictionary of Historic Places

    Edited by Trudy Ring, Paul Schellinger, Noelle Watson

    From the Taj Mahal to the Parthenon, from Gettysburg to Heidelberg, from Beacon Hill to Tower Hill, from the Great Wall to Hadrian's Wall, from Jerusalem to Kyoto, the International Dictionary of Historic Places presents some 1,000 comprehensive and fully illustrated histories of the most famous...

    Published June 29th 1996 by Routledge
36. Rural Politics

    Policies for Agriculture, Forestry and the Environment

    By Michael Winter

    The rural areas of Britain, Europe and the developed world are undergoing massive changes, with increasing concern about productivity, agricultural methods and environmental policy. Rural Politics examines the issues affecting rural areas, such as water pollution, forestry, and the greening of...

    Published April 17th 1996 by Routledge
37. The Shakespeare Name and Place Dictionary

    Edited by J. Madison Davis

    Entries provide the likely sources for a name; describe historical and mythological backgrounds; examine Shakespeare's presentation of a character or place; and suggest various interpretations of a name. Each entry contains line citations to William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, edited by Wells...

    Published April 30th 1995 by Routledge
38. Facadism

    By Jonathan Richards

    Facadism - the preservation of historic facades, the creation of facsimiles in front of new buildings and the decorative exercises of postmodernism - is accused of destroying architectural innovation, of divorcing the interior and exterior of buildings and of reducing townscapes to theatre sets....

    Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
39. Patrick Geddes

    Social Evolutionist and City Planner

    By Helen Meller

    One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those...

    Published January 5th 1994 by Routledge
40. Green History

    A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics

    Edited by Derek Wall

    Published December 1st 1993 by Routledge