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  • Battlescapes

    The Impact of Terrain on War and Military Strategy

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    This comprehensive study explores the landscapes and heritage of past conflicts along with defensive and offensive structures. Throughout history, nature – its resources, landscape and terrain – has shaped the tactics of warfare and determined its outcomes. From the medieval English Fens to the 20th century Iraqi Marsh Arabs, landscapes have fostered resistance and dissention. Harnessed by people ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spas and Spa Visiting

    by Ian Rotherham ...
    Series Book 795 - Shire Library
    The British spa came into its own in the Georgian period, with thousands flocking to take the waters at Bath, Cheltenham and Tunbridge Wells as well as numerous other towns.As these towns grew, their reputation as fashionable destinations became as or more important than the benefits of bathing, which in any case often involved immersion in water tainted by dirt and diseases from fellow bathers. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Peat and Peat Cutting

    by Ian Rotherham ...
    Series Book 483 - Shire Library
    For thousands of years peat was the main fuel that that warmed houses all over the British Isles, and the mark of the peat cutter is written deep in the landscape.This book is a celebration of a cultural history that extended from the Iron Age to the twentieth century. It tells the story of the use of peat for fuel in the British Isles, and the people who cut it. It also examines the methods of ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Ancient Woodland

    History, Industry and Crafts

    by Ian Rotherham ...
    Series Book 697 - Shire Library
    Though most of us will have enjoyed strolling through beautiful British woodlands, we might not be aware of the ancient – and often complex – origins of our surroundings.From medieval times, woodlands were carefully managed commodities with hotly contested resources: conflicting demands from landowners, the Crown, the peasantry and local and national wood-based industries have all left their marks ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests

    Ecology, History and Management

    Edited by Alper H. Çolak, Simay Kirca, Ian D. Rotherham ...
    From antiquity until today, trees and woods have inspired artists, writers and scientists; they have shaped cultures and reverberated through belief systems. Yet worldwide forest cover has declined dramatically over the last 1,000 years. Now, primeval forests are only to be found at a few sites unreachable by humans, and even then they are affected by climate change, atmospheric pollution and ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Steel City

    An Illustrated History of Sheffield’s Industry

    by Professor Ian D. Rotherham ...
    Sheffield has an enviable reputation for manufacturing quality, and as a global ‘steel city’, the home of major innovations in steel manufacture and processing. Furthermore, ‘Sheffield plate’ and Sheffield cutlery have been marques of the best in the world. Yet the story of Sheffield industry is much more than simply a catalogue of the rise of steel manufacturing and processing. One of the first ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of Countryside Management

    A Historical Account

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain. Yet these services are currently being decimated as public services are sacrificed to the new era of austerity.The role and importance of countryside management have been barely documented, and the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Lost Fens

    England's Greatest Ecological Disaster

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the 'breadbaskets' of Britain. Lost are the vast flocks of wetland birds that filled ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peatlands

    Ecology, Conservation and Heritage

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    This book provides an introduction to peatlands for the non-specialist student reader and for all those concerned about environmental protection, and is an essential guide to peatland history and heritage for scientists and enthusiasts.Peat is formed when vegetation partially decays in a waterlogged environment and occurs extensively throughout both temperate and tropical regions. Interest in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Yorkshire's Forgotten Fenlands

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    Yorkshire Forgotten Fens is a history of the cultural landscape of the wetlands of the Humber basin and the entire county of Yorkshire stretching from the Humber and north Lincolnshire through the Vale of York, through South Yorkshire and Holderness, to Pickering and beyond. The book draws together the story of a changing landscape, the lost cultures and ways of life, and the wildlife that has ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas. Synthesising current ideas and approaches the book develops an historic context to ecological fusion and recombinant or hybrid ecosystems. With massive climate change and other environmental fluxes, this volume provides insight into consequences for future ecologies. Invasive and non ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • York's Military Legacy

    by Ian D. Rotherham ...
    Series series Military Legacy
    One of the oldest settlements in Western Europe, York grew up on dry land with protective rivers and associated wetlands giving security and mobility. Early, prehistoric settlement was on nearby drier, raised areas along the flood plain. Here the Romans built a great, northern, fortified city and military settlement from which they could foray overland into northern England or by ship and the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus