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Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Pre-Industrial England. Geographical Essays. Slight foxing to edge. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Tiny dent to back D/J. This collected of reprinted essays illustrates themes in the historical geography of England and Wales between roughly 1500 and 1700. The papers include studies of the distribution of wealth in England in the early sixteenth century, innovations in arable and livestock farming, the migration of labour and residential patterns in cities in both rural and industrial hinterlands, and an assessment of the role of London in the English economy. The editor has added a long and important introduction on the present state of the historical geography of pre-industrial England in which he suggests new research paths and includes a bibliography of recent work. The volume will be particularly useful for courses in historical geography, historical demography and economic history. 245 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).