The trees that line our streets represent ‘living history’ in the midst of our modern streetscapes. This is the first book on the history of Britain’s street trees and it gives a highly readable account of their story, from the tree-lined promenades of the seventeenth century to majestic city centre boulevards to the suburbs.
Lavishly illustrated study of nearly 100 gardens in Derbyshire from the fabulously wealthy stately home to the smallest hidden delights; considers the importance of gardens in Derbyshire Spa towns; discusses the role of inherited and new wealth of the industrial revolution on the design of both private estates and public gardens.
Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds
Edited by Karen Hardy and Lucy Kubiak-Martens
Full Price: £32.00
Discount Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781785701238
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
368 Pages
Major new textbook discussing the role of plants in hominin and pre-agrarian human societies with case studies drawn from ethnography, ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology illustrating methods of analysis of plant remains and how archaeobotanical assemblages may be used and interpreted..
Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond
Edited by Peter Coates, David Moon and Paul Warde
Full Price: £29.95
Discount Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781909686939
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-02-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
272 Pages
Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to the relationship between perceptions of enviornmental change at a local scale and the wider forces of transformation, addressing influential ways of understanding and debating questions of ‘the state of nature’.
Traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages.
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