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Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England
Mark Brayshay
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Description for Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England
Hardcover. This new book focuses specifically on England's road network and systems of communications in the early modern period and provides substantial new evidence of the significance of improved travel and transportation to the processes of economic, political and cultural development that characterised the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Num Pages: 448 pages, 70 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1086.
Focused on the period between 1500 and 1700, Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England documents the unprecedented growth that occurred in road travel by all sections of society, from paupers to princes; the burgeoning volume of wheeled vehicles using the highways; and the radical changes in the means by which correspondence was conveyed throughout the realm and beyond. Unprecedented growth in ordinary travel by road occurred in Tudor and Stuart England between c.1500 and c.1700: increasingly complex itineraries and ambitious distances were achieved. Though mostly repaired in only rudimentary fashion, England’s highways supported increasing volumes of ... Read more
Focused on the period between 1500 and 1700, Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England documents the unprecedented growth that occurred in road travel by all sections of society, from paupers to princes; the burgeoning volume of wheeled vehicles using the highways; and the radical changes in the means by which correspondence was conveyed throughout the realm and beyond. Unprecedented growth in ordinary travel by road occurred in Tudor and Stuart England between c.1500 and c.1700: increasingly complex itineraries and ambitious distances were achieved. Though mostly repaired in only rudimentary fashion, England’s highways supported increasing volumes of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1086g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319501
SKU
V9781846319501
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99-50
About Mark Brayshay
Mark Brayshay is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Plymouth. An historical geographer, Mark’s recent research includes an ESRC-funded project on examining the historical geography of globalisation; concerned with how information, ideas and influence flowed through particular social networks. With its recent entry into the political lexicon globalisation is often considered to be a modern socio-economic phenomenon ... Read more
Reviews for Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England
Reviews 'The book adds appreciably to our understanding of the ways in which travel and communication developed within and beyond Britain during the early modern period.' Geoff Timmins, Journal of Transport History 'One of the most useful aspects of the work for historians is the seventy-one routes and road networks, sites of road and bridge repairs, carriers' schedules and ... Read more