Making of the English Landscape

W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes are the richest record we have of the past, and with his masterpiece, The Making of the English Landscape, he changed forever how we experience the places we live and work in.

Politics & Social Sciences

W G Hoskins

Social Sciences

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

'No one before has ever brought out with quite the same vividness the historical background of the country all around us' - "Guardian" - a classic of English landscape history, reissued in its fiftieth anniversary year. First published in 1955 by Hodder, "The Making Of The English Landscape" is a classic of English history. It was the first book to study, literally, the history of the landscape, and also the first to explode the myth that the English landscape was 'formed by enclosures'. Instead W. G. Hoskins traces the beauty and oddities of the English landscape further back, from pre-Roman times to the seventeenth century and beyond. Hoskins explains the layers of history in the landscape by taking the reader with him along Devonshire lanes, past lost villages in Lincolnshire, and through the pastures of upland Northamptonshire. This is a delightful book, readable and scholarly, which has been much-loved by readers for the past fifty years.

History

Europe

Hodder Hb

The Age of Plunder: King Henry's England 1500-1547 Longman Paperback Sehe Series Volume 5 of Social and Economic History of England Author William George Hoskins Edition 4, illustrated, reprint- softcover the Longman paperback Publisher Longman, 1976 ISBN 0582482739, 9780582482739 Length 262 pages military - parliamentary decisions- - England of Henry VIII 1500-1547/economics/economic conditions/Wales History / Europe /Great Britain > England / Textbooks /Humanities / History/ The Shearers and the Shorn / Rural Society and Agrarian Change / Urban Life and Structure

The Age of Plunder: King Henry's England, 1500-1547 (Longman Paperback)

Longman

Devon and Its People

David&Charles

Two Thousand Years in Exeter

Phillimore Co Ltd

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