Author: Peter Pery BurdettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
A Survey of the County Palatine of Chester, 1777
Author: Peter Pery BurdettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Landscape History Discoveries in the North West
Author: Sharon M. VareyPublisher: University of Chester
ISBN: 1908258004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Author: John ChapplePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719025501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.
Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society
Author: Chester Archaeological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Norton Priory
Author: J. Patrick GreenePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521602785
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This study of medieval monastic life in an Augustinian order integrates the results of modern archaeological investigation with conventional history and architecture.
Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester
Author: The Commerce of Cartography
Author: Mary Sponberg PedleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681758X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Though the political and intellectual history of mapmaking in the eighteenth century is well established, the details of its commercial revolution have until now been widely scattered. In The Commerce of Cartography, Mary Pedley presents a vivid picture of the costs and profits of the mapmaking industry in England and France, and reveals how the economics of map trade affected the content and appearance of the maps themselves. Conceptualizing the relationship between economics and cartography, Pedley traces the process of mapmaking from compilation, production, and marketing to consumption, reception, and criticism. In detailing the rise of commercial cartography, Pedley explores qualitative issues of mapmaking as well. Why, for instance, did eighteenth-century ideals of aesthetics override the modern values of accuracy and detail? And what, to an eighteenth-century mind and eye, qualified as a good map? A thorough and engaging study of the business of cartography during the Enlightenment, The Commerce of Cartography charts a new cartographic landscape and will prove invaluable to scholars of economic history, historical geography, and the history of publishing.
The Industrial Archaeology of North-west England
Author: Owen AshmorePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008207
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The first industrial region
Author: Jon StobartPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847794688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Britain's industrial revolution is popularly seen as a watershed in the transition to a modern industrial society. This book involves five closely related objectives. The first is to explore the importance of early eighteenth-century processes of regional formation and spatial integration and set these alongside later developments in regionalisation established by Hudson and others. The second objective is to offer an integrated analysis that seeks to link the detailed empirical evidence of local and regional development with broader theoretical, historical and geographical concepts and debates. Third is the integration of social and spatial divisions of labour was central to regional formation and economic development during this period. The fourth objective is to explore thoroughly the relationship between specialisation and integration in a variety of key sectors and in the regional economy as a whole. The final objective is to provide a rounded picture of development in north-west England where industrial, trading, servicing and commercial leisure activities are treated as part of an holistic regional economy. With a range of theoretical perspectives on regional economic development, the book focuses on textile industries as an example of advanced organic and proto-industrial development. The differentiated nature of Britain's industrial regions is reflected in the development of an increasingly sophisticated mineral-based energy economy parallel to this organic textiles economy. The service industries and interstitial secondary centres are discussed. Specialisation and integration were mutually formative processes that shaped regional development in the early eighteenth century and throughout the industrial revolution.
Lancashire and Cheshire from AD1540
Author: C. B. PhillipsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history of the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. In 1540 this was a backward area, poor, underpopulated and conservative. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century the spread of the first cottage industries to the mills and the mines transformed the region into one of the engines of Britain's nineteenth-century greatness. The causes, the costs and the consequences of that transformation are vividly portrayed in this very readable text. Offers a succinct account and analysis of the first region to experience the developed factory system. Discusses the rise, dominance and decline of the region which has parallels across the country and the world. Provides essential background text for the students of local history. Assumes no previous knowledge of the region.