Landscape and Community in England

Alan Everitt

• Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
• Year: 1985
• Print ISBN:
  9780907628422
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780826420411
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

England is an old country, more deeply conditioned by its past than perhaps any of us realise. It is also a varied country, particularly in relation to its size; this fact, too, has left its imprint on our past. Antiquity and diversity are the hallmarks of English landscape and society, with evidences of the logic of history evident everywhere we look. In this collection of essays Alan Everitt looks at the interconnections between landscape and community, demonstrating how places, localities, counties and regions all shed light on English society and history as a whole. Covering topics such as regional evolution, lost towns of England, the agrarian landscape in Kent, the English urban inn, and dynasty and community since the 17th century, Everitts essays cpature the wealth of experience and local idiosyncracies that constitute Englands rich history and culture.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Landscape and Community in England
• 2 Country, County and Town: Patterns of Regional Evolution in England
• 3 River and Wold: Reflections on the Historical Origin of Regions and Pays
• 4 The Making of the Agrarian Landscape of Kent
• 5 The Primary Towns of England
• 6 The Lost Towns of England
• 7 Suffolk and the Great Rebellion, 1640–1660
• 8 The English Urban Inn
• 9 Springs of Sensibility: Philip Doddridge of Northampton and the Evangelical Tradition
• 10 Kentish Family Portrait
• 11 Country Carriers in the Nineteenth Century
• 12 Dynasty and Community since the Seventeenth Century
• Index