The Archaeology of a Great Estate

The Archaeology of a Great Estate
Author: Nicola Bannister
Publisher: Windgather Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 190968631X

The Peak District is a historic upland landscape, with a rich palimpsest of features which invoke the many generations of people who have inhabited the area. The great estate of Chatsworth reflects the Peak in microcosm. Its landscapes are diverse and contain many exceptional features including archaeological earthworks of medieval open fields and later enclosures in the park, and prehistoric stone circles, barrows, fields and settlements on the Estate moorlands. This book tells the story of the historic landscape and its archaeology; it is a companion volume to Chatsworth: A Landscape History (Barnatt & Williamson), but in contrast to that book includes the whole of the Estate landscape, including the extensive farmland and moorlands beyond the park and concentrates on visible archaeology and what it can tell us about the past. The result is a fascinating in-depth portrait of one of the major estates in Britain.

The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains

The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
Author: Douglas B. Bamforth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 0521873460

This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.

A Great Estate At Work

A Great Estate At Work
Author: Susanna Wade Martins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1980-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521226967

This book deals with the work of both Thomas William Coke and his son, their agents and their tenants at Holkham through the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth. It shows how far even the most dynamic landlord needed a progressive tenantry and how far the tenantry relied on the landlord for the provision of good farm buildings and other capital expenditure.

Erasmus Darwin's Gardens

Erasmus Darwin's Gardens
Author: Paul A. Elliott
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2021
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN: 178327610X

This first full study of Erasmus Darwin's gardening, horticulture and agriculture shows he was as keen a nature enthusiast as his grandson Charles, and demonstrates the ways in which his landscape experiences transformed his understanding of nature.

What did Capability Brown do for Ecology? The legacy for biodiversity, landscapes, and nature conservation

What did Capability Brown do for Ecology? The legacy for biodiversity, landscapes, and nature conservation
Author: Christine Handley (eds)
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1904098657

This book is based on a major conference with Historic England, Natural England, the Ancient Tree Forum and others which took place in 2016 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. The event brought together ecologists, landscape historians and archaeologists, land managers and conservationists to look critically at the impact of Brown and his successors on the UK's landscape. The book addresses the paradigms of these designed landscapes. It considers the issues around the legacy of Brown's creations and ideas and the repercussions that are still apparent today. It makes for a thought-provoking and rich discussion covering habitat conservation and creation, drainage and the release of alien species. This is the untold story of the ecology of Capability Brown and the landscape school which followed.

At Home in the Eighteenth Century

At Home in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Stephen G. Hague
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000449386

The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.

Archaeology of Afghanistan

Archaeology of Afghanistan
Author: Raymond Allchin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474450474

First published in 1978, this was the first book in English to provide a complete survey of the immensely rich archaeological remains of Afghanistan. It has now been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to incorporate the latest discoveries and research.