Books in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series

Power and Pauperism aims to provide a new perspective on the place of the workhouse in the history and geography of nineteenth-century society and social policy. Dr Driver demonstrates that despite appearances the workhouse system was far from monolithic, and that official policy was beset with conflict.

This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. Written specifically for students, it combines new material with an analysis of the existing literature. The author argues that the impact of related changes in output and productivity, and in social and economic structure, in the century after 1750 amount to an agricultural revolution.

This collection of essays provide theoretical, methodological and substantive empirical analysis of migration in Latin America. Ranging in time from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century, they provide conclusive evidence of the ubiquity of migration in the early modern period, and show that to migrate was one of the most important means of coping with Spanish colonialism.

This reference volume on the Caribbean contains historical and geographical information from 1492 to the present, and contains a bibliography and a set of maps and tables. Much of the book covers the history of sugar cultivation in the region.

Urbanising Britain brings together the work of some leading British historical geographers of the younger generation to consider nineteenth-century urbanization as a process, emphasizing the dimensions of class and community.

This is the first authoritative and comprehensive historical geography of Australia during the second century of white occupation. Originally published in hardback in 1988, Dr Powell's substantial study immediately established itself as essential reading for all those with a serious interest in Australian studies.

This is the first book to take a comprehensive view of the historical geography of Scotland since the Union. The book contains a number of original researches and Dr Turnock attempts to set the Scottish experience in a framework of general ideas on modernisation.

The Iconography of Landscape, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'.

This book examines the social history and historical geography of the most important agricultural pressure groups in France since about 1918, which helped to shape the evolution of French farming this century.

Landscapes of material are also landscapes of meaning. In this book fifteen historical geographers examine landscapes as messages to be decoded, as signs to be deciphered. The essays are principally concerned with the ideologies of religion and of politics, of Church and of state, and their historical impress upon the landscape.

This book, first published in 2000, was the first single-authored treatment of medieval English agriculture at a national scale. It deals comprehensively with cultivation carried out by landowners on their demesne farms. Methodologically innovative, the book provides a framework and context for all future scholarship on the medieval and early agrarian economies.

In this 1999 book, Alan Baker has put together a comprehensive study of voluntary associations in a French region in the nineteenth century. In doing so he challenges the orthodox portrayal of nineteenth-century French peasants as individualists and examines the extent of their involvement in traditional, and new, forms of collective action.

The authors uses data collected for 350 cities around the world to paint a picture of global mortality trends at the turn of the twentieth century. The authors analyse data on diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, and whooping cough, and death from all causes, to give insights into patterns of mortality from these diseases.

How do peasants, producing mainly for themselves, become capitalist farmers? What happens to farm sizes and farming practices in the process of this transition? How far does it vary from region to region? These questions are examined theoretically and empirically in this 1995 study of rural change in Sweden.

This is an important study which systematically explores the conceptual issues raised by the geography of societal change. Robert Dodgshon shows that by first understanding the geography of change, we can learn how society changes, and how and and why change tends to occur when it does.

Written from the perspective of both historical geography and intellectual history, Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalite of imperial Russia. This 1999 work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and ambivalent ideological relationship between Russian nationalism, geographical identity, and imperial expansion.

Late nineteenth-century America was a time of industrialization and urbanization. Immigration was increasing and traditional hierarchies were being challenged. Hannah demonstrates using a combination of empirical and theoretical data that the modernization of America at the time was a thoroughly spatial and explicitly geographical project.