An Atlas And Index Of The Tithe Files Of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England And Wales

KAIN, Roger JP.

Verlag: London: Cambridge University Press, 1986, London, 1986

Beschreibung

1986. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Description: Green cloth boards with gold titles to dark green text box on cover and spine. Green end papers. Black & white frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Inscription from author on title page dated 1986. Language: English. Book Condition> Near Fine: Lightly soiled text block edges. DJ Condition> Na. 651pp. Size: 8vo, 27.5cm by 19.5cm. Book Resume: The tithe surveys of the early Victorian Age, after the great Domesday Book of the eleventh century, represent the most detailed and important national inventory to be taken before our own times This 1986 book reconstructs elements of mid-nineteenth-century rural landscapes and farming systems by analysing the wealth of quantitative data which these tithe surveys contain, communicated cartographically by a set of 582 computer-generated maps, and statistically by a series of tables The book also reveals the richness and variety of written evidence which the 14,829 parish tithe files contain, by means of analytical place and subject indexes for each English and Welsh county (some 200,000 entries in all) and by essays in which themes commonly encountered in the tithe file papers of each county are described These sections of the book will be an essential tool for historians and historical geographers. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5880

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Titel: An Atlas And Index Of The Tithe Files Of ...

Verlag: London: Cambridge University Press, 1986, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1986

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Na

Signiert: Inscribed and signed by the author

Auflage: 1st Edition.