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Land of France 1815-1914.
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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| Colección: | Routledge Library Editions: Rural History ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Prefa; Contents; List of tables; A note on place names; 1 Purpose and plan; Meshing space and time; Facts and figures; Ways and means; Notes; 2 Legacies of empire; Land and people; The arable mosaic; Remaining realms; 3 Underlying forces; Growth and redistribution; Holding the land; Degrees of accessibility; Widening horizons; Note; 4 Fluctuating fringes; The old order changeth; Interior colonisation; Full circle; 5 Pivot of the economy; Advance; Expansion and intensification; Retreat.
- 6 Tradition and innovationAn initial view; Trends of change; Ploughing the fields; Sowing seed; harvesting grain; 7 The advance of livestock husbandry; Changing objectives; The three phases; Means to an end; Changing numbers; Notes; 8 Polyculture to specialisation; More a way of life; Decline and fall?; Reconstitution; 9 Devastation and conservation; Contrasts; A narrow view; A broader perspective; Transformations; 10 Sum of the parts ; Only connect ; The record of the land; A final view; Note; Bibliography; Index.