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Book The Anglo Saxon Fenland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Oosthuizen
  • Publisher : Windgather Press
  • Release : 2017-06-30
  • ISBN : 1911188097
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Anglo Saxon Fenland written by Susan Oosthuizen and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago. Dense Romano-British settlement appears to have been followed by consistent early medieval occupation on every island in the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the region were organised within territorial groups in a complicated, almost certainly dynamic, hierarchy of subordinate and dominant polities, principalities and kingdoms. Their prosperous livelihoods were based on careful collective control, exploitation and management of the vast natural water-meadows on which their herds of cattle grazed. This was a society whose origins could be found in prehistoric Britain, and which had evolved through the period of Roman control and into the post-imperial decades and centuries that followed. The rich and complex history of the development of the region shows, it is argued, a traditional social order evolving, adapting and innovating in response to changing times.

Book Medieval London

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Barron
  • Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1580442579
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book Medieval London written by Caroline Barron and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline M. Barron is the world's leading authority on the history of medieval London. For half a century she has investigated London's role as medieval England's political, cultural, and commercial capital, together with the urban landscape and the social, occupational, and religious cultures that shaped the lives of its inhabitants. This collection of eighteen papers focuses on four themes: crown and city; parish, church, and religious culture; the people of medieval London; and the city's intellectual and cultural world. They represent essential reading on the history of one of the world's greatest cities by its foremost scholar.

Book Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean

Download or read book Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Taco Terpstra and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided with a process of state formation, culminating in the largest state the ancient Mediterranean would ever know, the Roman Empire. Subsequent economic decline coincided with state disintegration. How are the two processes related? In Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean, Taco Terpstra investigates how the organizational structure of trade benefited from state institutions. Although enforcement typically depended on private actors, traders could utilize a public infrastructure, which included not only courts and legal frameworks but also socially cohesive ideologies. Terpstra details how business practices emerged that were based on private order, yet took advantage of public institutions. Focusing on the activity of both private and public economic actors—from Greek city councilors and Ptolemaic officials to long-distance traders and Roman magistrates and financiers—Terpstra illuminates the complex relationship between economic development and state structures in the ancient Mediterranean.

Book Family History Research

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Delaforce
  • Publisher : Regency Press (London & New York)
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780721206882
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Family History Research written by Patrick Delaforce and published by Regency Press (London & New York). This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a "how to" book on genealogy, but it includes a lot of the research the author has done on the Delaforce family.

Book The Duke of Norfolk s Deeds at Arundel Castle

Download or read book The Duke of Norfolk s Deeds at Arundel Castle written by Heather M. Warne and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary   Memoirs of John Allen Giles

Download or read book The Diary Memoirs of John Allen Giles written by John Allen Giles and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1813 1814

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  • Author : Sir John William Fortescue
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book 1813 1814 written by Sir John William Fortescue and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Growing Gold  Or  a Treatise on the Cultivation of British Oak

Download or read book Growing Gold Or a Treatise on the Cultivation of British Oak written by James Sawyer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

Book Silent Partners

Download or read book Silent Partners written by Amy M. Froide and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Partners restores women to their place in the story of England's Financial Revolution. Women were active participants in London's first stock market beginning in the 1690s and continuing through the eighteenth century. Whether playing the state lottery, investing in government funds for retirement, or speculating in company stocks, women regularly comprised between a fifth and a third of public investors. These female investors ranged from London servants to middling tradeswomen, up to provincial gentlewomen and peeresses of the realm. Amy Froide finds that there was no single female investor type, rather some women ran risks and speculated in stocks while others sought out low-risk, low-return options for their retirement years. Not only did women invest for themselves, their financial knowledge and ability meant that family members often relied on wives, sisters, and aunts to act as their investing agents. Moreover, women's investing not only benefitted themselves and their families, it also aided the nation. Women's capital was a critical component of Britain's rise to economic, military, and colonial dominance in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the period between 1690 and 1750, and utilizing women's account books and financial correspondence, as well as the records of joint stock companies, the Bank of England, and the Exchequer, Silent Partners provides the first comprehensive overview of the significant role women played in the birth of financial capitalism in Britain.

Book The Wardle Family and Its Circle

Download or read book The Wardle Family and Its Circle written by Brenda M. King and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of an entrepreneurial family whose work influenced followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Gothic Revivalism, Art Needlework and Aestheticism

Book Mrs  Gladstone

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  • Author : Mary Gladstone Drew
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Mrs Gladstone written by Mary Gladstone Drew and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Economy and Culture in North East England  1500 1800

Download or read book Economy and Culture in North East England 1500 1800 written by Adrian Green and published by Regions and Regionalism in History. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich picture of the complexities of early industrial development in the north-east of England.

Book The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel  including the biography of its Earls  from the conquest to the present time

Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel including the biography of its Earls from the conquest to the present time written by Mark Aloysius Tierney and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: