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Land settlement --- Land use --- Landscape changes --- Landscapes --- Geografie --- History --- Landschapskunde --- Historische geografie --- Groot-Brittanië. --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Change, Landscape --- Geomorphology --- England --- Historical geography. --- Social conditions
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The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interested in the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Historical geography. --- Histoire --- Géographie historique --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Anglo-Saxon Period. --- Anglo-Saxon period. --- Early Medieval Society. --- Early medieval England. --- England. --- Field Systems. --- Geographical Features. --- Landscape. --- Natural Environment. --- Physical Geography. --- Regional Variations. --- Settlement Patterns. --- Social Structures. --- environment. --- field systems. --- geographical features. --- historical analysis. --- landscape. --- physical geography. --- settlement patterns. --- social structures. --- Land settlement --- Land tenure
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While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation at various times and places in the more remote past. This timely volume encompasses both rural and urban environments from 1650 to the mid-twentieth century, drawing on a wide variety of social, historical and ecological sources. It examines the impact of social and economic organisation on the English landscape, biodiversity, the agricultural revolution, landed estates, the coming of large-scale industry and the growth of towns and suburbs. It also develops an original perspective on the complexity and ambiguity of man/animal relationships in this post-medieval period.
Landscapes --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- History. --- Ecology --- Ecology. --- Human ecology --- Human ecology. --- Landscape changes --- Landscape changes. --- Landscapes. --- Natural history --- Natural history. --- Wildtiere. --- History --- Effect of human beings on --- Effect of human beings on. --- England --- England. --- Gro�britannien. --- Environmental conditions
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The objective of this book is to review the position of investigative interviewing in a variety of different countries, with different types of criminal justice systems, and consists of chapters written by leading authorities in the field, both academics and practitioners. A wide range of often controversial questions are addressed, including issues raised by the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, The Reid model for interviewing and miscarriages of justice, the role of legislation in preventing bad practice, the effectiveness of ethical interviewing, investigative interviewing and human
Police questioning --- Criminal investigation --- Civil rights --- Interviewing --- Questioning --- Counseling --- Focus groups --- Interviews --- Social case work --- Crime detection --- Crime investigation --- Criminal investigations --- Detection of crime --- Investigations --- Law enforcement --- Crime scenes --- Detectives --- Forensic sciences --- Suspects (Criminal investigation) --- Police interrogation --- Interviewing in law enforcement --- Informers
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Agriculture --- Agriculture --- Geografie --- Landscape archaeology --- Landscape changes --- History --- History --- Landschapskunde --- Historische geografie --- Groot-Brittanië.
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Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. But this narrow view wasn't necessarily shared by contemporaries, and Tom Williamson in this thought-provoking book reveals that the aristocracy and gentry, who paid for these private landscapes and lived in them, were motivated by more complex interests and needs. Landowners had strong ideas of their own about how their property should look and how it should function. The park and garden were part of a working estate consisting of farms and forestry enterprises, and the surroundings of the country house were shaped to suit the requirements of hunting, shooting, riding and other recreational activities as well as to conform to the aesthetic principles of philosophers and landscape gardeners. Tom Williamson's pioneering study concentrates on the wider social, economic and political implications of these elaborate private landscapes. He emphasizes the practical relationship between the landowners who were demanding customers and the designers who were businessmen as well as artists. In the process he shows how changing fashions in the layout of gentlemen's pleasure grounds were related to broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England.
Landscape gardening --- Jardins --- History --- Architecture --- Histoire --- England --- Angleterre --- Civilization --- Civilisation
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