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Shaping medieval landscapes : settlement, society, environment
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ISBN: 0954557581 Year: 2004 Publisher: Macclesfield Windgather


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Environment, society and landscape in early medieval England
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ISBN: 9781843837374 1843837374 9781782040538 1782040536 1283836505 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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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.


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An environmental history of wildlife in England, 1650-1950
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ISBN: 1441167439 1441117571 9781441117571 9781441167439 9781441108630 1441108637 9781441124869 1441124861 9781306726214 1306726212 Year: 2013 Publisher: London

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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.

Investigative interviewing
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ISBN: 1134039557 1282237748 9786612237744 1843926334 9781134039555 9781843926337 9781134039692 1134039697 9781134039623 113403962X 9781138861473 1138861472 1843921243 9781843921240 9781282237742 6612237740 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cullompton, UK Portland, Or. Willan

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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


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The archaeology of the landscape park : garden design in Norfolk, England, c. 1680-1840
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ISBN: 0860548813 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

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The Norfolk Broads : a landscape history
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ISBN: 071904801X Year: 1997 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,

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The transformation of rural England : farming and the landscape 1700-1870
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ISBN: 085989634X Year: 2002 Publisher: Exeter : University of Exeter press,

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Polite landscapes : gardens and society in eighteenth-century England
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ISBN: 0801852056 Year: 1995 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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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.

The handbook of knowledge based policing : current conceptions and future directions.
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ISBN: 9780470028995 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chichester Wiley

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Environment, society and landscape in early medieval England : time and topography
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ISBN: 9781782040538 Year: 2013 Publisher: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer

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