An historical geography of Western Europe before 1800 / by C.T. Smith.
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New York :
Praeger,
[1967]
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| Series: | Praeger advanced geographies.
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Table of Contents:
- Prehistory. Earliest beginnings ; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe ; Neolithic Europe ; Agrarian and industrial revolutions: technological change ; Race, language and the personality of Europe
- Classical world. Greece ; Rome and its expansion in the West ; The geography of economic development in the Roman West ; The Roman legacy in the landscapes of Western Europe
- Peopling of Western Europe. The Germanic invasions ; The Arabs ; The Scandinavians ; The great expansion: the age of clearing ; The colonisation of East Germany
- Agrarian structure and field systems before 1800. North-Western Europe ; Mediterranean farming and field systems
- Rural settlement before 1800. Grouped settlement ; Dispersed settlement
- Medieval and early modern towns. Charter, market and wall ; Size, spacing and site ; Origins, revival and growth of the Medieval city ; The Baroque and Renaissance town 1500-1800
- Trade and industry in the Middle Ages. The Mediterranean ; Flanders and the Southern Low Countries ; Ports of the Low Countries
- Expansion overseas and its impact on the economic geography of Europe. Overseas trade and the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century ; Trade and industry of the Netherlands ; The ports of Western France
- Agricultural and regional change. Introduction ; Viticulture in France ; Drainage and reclamation in the Low Countries ; Agricultural change in the Low Countries ; Agricultural change in the North Italian plain ; Eastern Spain: Catalonia and the Levante
- Industry in the early modern period. The geographical distribution of industry ; Textile and metal industries in Southern Belgium ; The Swedish iron industry before 1800 ; Industry in France during the Ancien reĢgime ; Patterns of industrial development in Germany.