Rural Change & Urban Growth 1500-1800

UK SELLER - Ex Library and No Dust Jacket - Hardback - Acceptable Condition, markings on markings signs of well usage - Rural Change and Urban Growth 1500-1800 : Essays in English Regional History in Honour of W.G Hoskins, edited by CW Chalklin and MA Havinden. Published by lonman in 1974. Essays were chosen as mulifarious interests of WG Hoskins, econmic and social changes in regional history from the Middle Ages through to the Industrial Revolution. Contents with authors are The Decay of the Borders : Tudor Northumberland in transition by R Newton, The Squire of Conisholme by J Cornwall, Dearth and disease in Staffordshire 1540-1670 by D Palliser, New crops and their diffusion:Tobacco-growing in 17th Century England by J Thirsk, Lime as a means of Agricultural improvement:the Devon example by M Havinden, Vernacular building in the Oxford region in the 16th and 17th Centures by D Portman, Kentish Family Portrait:an aspect of the rise of psuedo-gentry by A Everitt, The Cumbrian town between 1600 and 1800 by R Millward, The making of some new towns 1600-1720 by C Chalklin, Socieity belief and the building of Bath 1700-1793 by Roy Neale, The making of a townscape:Richard Paley in the East End of Leeds 1771-1803 by M Beresford, The rationale of traditional building by H Bagenal. 366 pages - UK SELLER