Period and Place : Research Methods in Historical Geography (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Developments in Historical Geography: 1. Historical geography in Israel: retrospect and prospect Y. Ben-Arieh; 2. Developments in historical geography in Britain in the 1970s R. A. Butlin; Part II. Reconstructing Past Geographies:3. Reconstructing societies in the past: the collective biography of local communities M. Billinge; 4. Modernization, restoration, preservation: changes in tastes for antique landscapes H. C. Prince; 5. Reconstructing Old Prussian landscapes, with special reference to spatial organization H. Jaeger; 6. Soldier settlement in British Columbia, 1915?1930: a synchronic analysis P. M. Koroscil; Part III. The Identification and Interpretation of Geographical Change: 7. Geographical analysis of imperial expansion D. W. Meinig; 8. Agricultural improvement in late-colonial tropical America: sources and issues H. Galloway; 9. Relating structure to process in historical population analysis: case studies from eighteenth-century Spanish America D. J. Robinson; 10. Questions of scale in the study of population in nineteenth-century Britain R. Lawton; 11. Geographical changes in cities following disaster M. J. Bowden; 12. Applied historical geography and geographies of the past: historico-geographical change and regional processes in history D. Deneke; 13. The interface of physical and historical geography: the analysis of farming decisions in response to drought hazards on the margins of the Great Plains D. A. McQuillan; 14. Individualistic features in a communal landscape: some comments on the spatial organization of a rural society U. Sporrong; 15. Land use and settlement patterns in the Malar area of Sweden before the foundation of villages U. Goranson; 16. The significance of time for rural settlement patterns I. Egerbladh; 17. Cotton production in Japan before industrialization T. Ukita; Part IV. Behavioural Approaches to the Study of Geographical Change: 18. Historical geography and Collingwood's theory of historical knowing L. Guelke; 19. Images, acts and consequences: a critical review of historical geosophy R. W. Chambers; 20. The images of France and Paris in modern times: a historico-geographical problem P. Claval; 21. Perceived space in ancient Japan M. Senda; 22. Problems of interpreting the symbolism of past landscapes D. E. Cosgrove; Part V. Theoretical Approaches in Historical Geography: 23. On ideology and historical geography A. R. H. Baker; 24. Action and structure in historical geography D. J. Gregory; 25. Historical geography as the evolution of spatial form W. Norton; Part VI. Historical Sources and Techniques: 26. Historical geography and its evidence: reflections on modelling sources J. B. Harley; 27. Private archives as sources for historical geography C. Hall; 28. A Danish land survey from the seventeenth century V. Hansen; 29. Cartographic representation of diachronic analysis: the example of the origin of towns A. Simms; 30. A note on some documentary sources for studying the historical geography of Japan T. Tanioka; 31. Field evidence in historical geography: a negative sample? A source critical study of an area with fossil forms in Ostergotland, Sweden M. Widgren; Notes to the text; Select bibliography; Index.