The New Reading the Landscape: Fieldwork in Landscape History - Couverture souple

Muir, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0859895807 ISBN 13 : 9780859895804

Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this essential handbook for all those researching landscape history, Richard Muir explains how to recognize and interpret the complex evidence for historical change in England's countryside. Drawing on the wealth of research carried out since Reading the Landscape was originally published in 1981, Muir provides a masterly synthesis of current thinking about the history of the key elements in England's rural landscape. As well as covering familiar topics such as villages, woodlands and roads, he explores how landscape features are human ideas made manifest-boundary walls and hedges reflect territoriality, churches and henges reflect belief and castles and hillforts reflect status and the need for defence. Throughout, he explains how the researcher can link the evidence of field archaeology, ecology and documentary research to develop as complete a picture as possible.An entirely rewritten successor to the original Reading the Landscape, with full referencing. Illustrated with 60 original maps guiding the reader through the interpretation of specific sites, and 40 high quality landscape photographs. Includes 29 tables explaining key landscape features, and how to diagnose them in the field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Muir is Senior Lecturer in Geography in the University College of Ripon and York St John. He is one of Britain's most widely published and respected landscape historians. Two of his bestselling books on British landscape have won the Yorkshire Arts Literary Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859895807
• ISBN 13: 9780859895804
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible