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  • A Social History of the English Countryside

    by G. E. Mingay ...
    Traces the rise and fall of rural England from the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the nature of the changes which have occurred. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century

    by G.E Mingay ...
    First published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and freeholders. Landed property was the foundation of eighteenth-century society. The soil itself yielded the nation its sustenance and most of its raw materials, and provided the population with its most extensive means of employment; and the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Transformation of Britain

    1830–1939

    by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, The Transformation of Britain, 1830–1939 delves into the significant changes that occurred across the landscape and society of Britain during this prominent age of reform and innovation.The book traces the rapid increase in the pace and scale of change across Britain, and explores the key developments that occurred. It examines the changes in population as more people ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Climate of Lament

    Reflections on Ecological Grief

    Edited by Philip Mingay, Michael Ferber ...
    In this unique collection of poetry and prose, twenty-two contributors from diverse fields and countries respond to the climate crisis with voices of honesty and care. Each chapter pairs a personal poetic lament with a reflective essay that reveals the author’s connection to place, and to the wider world community. These laments are grounded in the particular, yet they speak to the shared grief of ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unquiet Countryside

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989 The Unquiet Countryside chronicles rural crime and unrest in the English countryside from seventeenth century down to the end of the Victorian era. The authors highlight some of the most striking aspects of the countryside of the past: the extent and nature of rural crime and protest; riots over food; the Swing riots of 1830; poaching, arson, and animal maiming; the ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • The Vanishing Countryman

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, The Vanishing Countryman investigates how farmers, farm workers, and other country crafts- and tradespeople have fared in response to significant changes across the British countryside in the past one hundred years.The book explores the move towards large-scale and capital-intensive farming, and the conflict between increased production and damage to the environment. It ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • The Rural Idyll

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
    This book, first published in 1989, recounts the changing perceptions of the countryside throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, helping us to understand more fully the issues that have influenced our view of the ideal countryside, past and present. Some of the chapters are concerned with ways in which Victorian artists, poets, and prose writers portrayed the countryside of their day; ... Read more

    $200.62 CAD

  • Parliamentary Enclosure in England

    An Introduction to its Causes, Incidence and Impact, 1750-1850

    by Gordon E Mingay ...
    Enclosure transformed the old open fields and common lands of England to create the modern rural landscape. It changed forever the life of many villages, but provided food for a rapidly rising population. Its methods and consequences were controversial - many rural poor lost their access to land - and the subject is still a cause of dispute. Gordon Mingay's authoritative survey guides the reader ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Britain and America, 1850–1939

    A Study of Economic Change

    by Philip S. Bagwell, G. E. Mingay ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1970, Britain and America 1850–1939 is a key text for anyone seeking to trace and interpret the development of the two great trans-Atlantic economies.The authors present a comparative survey of the economic development of Britain and America. The book compares and contrasts the economic and social progress of the two countries in the period of rapid industrialization and ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Outback Conflict

    by Margaret Mingay ...
    Mick Mathews has enviable outback skills, and when international criminals invade his personal space, it forces him to outwit nefarious, highly trained drug runners. Alexandra Beaumont, a university biology student, drives to Pilbara in Western Australia to study unique flora and fauna. Alex finds out all too soon that the outback is not for the fainthearted. Initially, Mick and she collide. Mick ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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    RUM & COAL KEN TALBOT

    A MODERN AUSTRALIAN ENTREPRENEUR

    by Chris Wright ...
    Narrated by Ben Mingay ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 9 min

    The biography Rum and Coal, written by Chris Wright, tells Ken's story. From his humble Aussie working-class beginnings, his journey to creating a coal mining empire, the unexpected challenges along the way, and finally, the fateful flight that instantly took his and ten other lives.Ken's personal notes, written as a blueprint for his success, generously provided interviews with family, colleagues ... Read more

    $26.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly Jr ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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