Alan R. H. Baker

Place, Culture, and Identity

Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R.H. Baker

Alan R.H. Baker, of the Geography Department of the University of Cambridge, has played a leading role in the development of historical geography. Thi...

Transcendental Number Theory

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The Personality of Paris

Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by...

Geography and History

Bridging the Divide

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Fraternity Among the French Peasantry

Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815-1914

The individualism of the French peasantry during the nineteenth century has frequently been asserted as one of its most striking characteristics. In t...

Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848-1914

Harmony and Hostility

This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concep...

Man Made the Land

Essays in English Historical Geography : a Series from the Geographical Magazine

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