River Navigation in England, 1600-1750


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First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




Transport in the Industrial Revolution


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Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England


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The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. England is naturally well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash and Humber. The central middle ages saw innovative and extensive development of this network, including the digging of canals bypassing difficult stretches of rivers, or linking rivers to important production centres. The eleventh and twelfth centuries seem to have been the high point for this dynamic approach to water-transport: after 1200, the improvement of roads and bridges increasingly diverted resources away from the canals, many of which stagnated with the reassertion of natural drainage patterns. The new perspective presented in this study has an important bearing on the economy, landscape, settlement patterns and inter-regional contacts of medieval England. Essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars unearth this neglected but important aspect of medieval engineering and economic growth.




The Development of Transportation in Modern England


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Published in 1962: In offering this work as a modest contribution to our knowledge of the economic development of England from the standpoint of transportation, the author must say, in the first place that he has endeavoured to adhere rigidly to the subject in hand, withour making deviations into collateral fields




New Historical Geography of England


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Analytic survey of the changing face of England, countryside and town, from the coming of the Anglo-Saxons to 1914.







British Economic and Social History


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Labour and the Poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851


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First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.