Robin A. Butlin

The population of Dublin in the late seventeenth century

(1965). The population of Dublin in the late seventeenth century. Irish Geography: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 51-66.

George Adam Smith and the historical geography of the Holy Land: contents, contexts and connections

George Adam smith was a prominent Old Testament scholar and theologian, whose work on the historical geography of the Holy land has been noted by historical geographers, though its intellectual contexts have never been fully explored. The contents and style of his major books and atlas reveal a special talent for narrative and description, and his connections with wider complexes of revolutionary theology and nascent scientific geography in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries are extensive and important indicators of the rapid and sometimes confusing and controversial changes in intellectual and societal milieux. He also affords significant links with older traditions of description of the historical or scriptural geography of the Holy Land. “Surely there is no region of earth where Nature and history have more cruelly conspired, where so tragic a drama has obtained so awful a theatre. The effect of some historical catastrophes has been heightened by their occurrence amid scenes of beauty and peace. It is otherwise here. Nature, when she has not herself been, by some convulsion, the executioner of judgement, has added every aggravation of horror to the cruelty of the human avenger or the exhaustion of the doomed. The history of the Dead Sea opens with Sodom and Gomorrah, and may be said to close with the Massacre of Masada.”

An Historical Geography of Europe

An Historical Geography of Europe represents the first multi-authored comprehensive study on the subject. It provides the reader with an analytical and explanatory account of European historical geography from classical times to the modern period, including the vast changes to landscape, settlements, population, and in political and cultural structures and character that have taken place since 1500. The book takes account of the vast volume of relevant research and literature that has been published over the past two or three decades, in order to achieve a unique coverage and synthesis of this very broad range of evidence and opinion, and has tried to engage with many of the main themes and debates to give a clear indication of changing ideas and interpretations of the subject. This book brings together British and European authors from a number of disciplines who have considerable distinction in the various fields of historical geography and related fields, including a significant number who have already written on the wider problem of European historical geography. It is amply illustrated with maps and diagrams to present many of the issues in a visual form.

Teaching and Research in Geography: An introduction

The symposium reported in these papers reviewed the complementary and conflicting roles of teaching and research. A pluralistic view of the combinations of teaching and research should be favoured and financially rewarded, given the wide range of sizes, histories and missions of departments of geography in the UK. Issues needing further debate and understanding include: the degree of correlation between teaching and research and the role and value of pedagogic research.

Studies of field systems in the British Isles

Preface 1. Introduction: Materials and methods 2. Field systems north west England 3. Field systems of Northumberland and Durham 4. Field systems of Yorkshire 5. Field systems of the West Midlands 6. Field systems of the East Midlands 7. Field systems of East Anglia 8. Field systems of the Chiltern Hills 9. Field systems of Southeast England 10. Field systems of North Wales 11. Field systems of South Wales 12. Field systems of Scotland 13. Field systems of Ireland 14. Conclusion: Problems and perspectives.

Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time

Context and histories of historical geography (c.1700-1920) the beginnings of modern historical geography (c.1920-1950) historical geography in the second half of the 20th century sources of evidence and data in geographies of power and control rural transformations historical geographies of urbanization historical geographies of industrialization historical geographies of trade, transport and communications.

The open field system and beyond: A property rights analysis of an economic institution: Carl Dahlman, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. viii+234. £11·50)

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