Analysis of hundreds of art works from the period provides insights into forgotten landscapes and hidden geographies.After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy Brit

In the first half of the nineteenth-century, responsibility for child care primarily rested within families. Needy children were often cared for by community-sp

This book investigates the concept of human landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemp

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The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day.