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  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (31 Oct 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140154108
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140154108
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Deals with the historical evolution of the English landscape as we know it. It dispels the popular belief that the pattern of the land is a result of 18th-century enclosures and attributes it instead to a much longer evolution. This book traces the chronological development of the English landscape from pre-Roman days to the eve of the Black Death, onwards to the Industrial Revolution and up to the present day. With the help of photographs and charts, Professor Hopkins discusses the origins of Devonshire hedge-banks and lanes, the ruined churches in Norfolk and lost villages in Lincolnshire, Somerset's marshland ditches, Cornwall's remote granite farmsteads and the lonely pastures of upland Northamptonshire.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book lets you feel more intelligent., 2 Jan 2001
By KL Dinwoodie "Kevin" (England) - See all my reviews
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Numerous pictures and the chronological layout aid the clarity of description that the author brings to a topic that he clearly loves. I found it fascinating and illuminating, explaining the everyday countryside. The parochial nature of the book mentioned in the previous review was not evident to myself, but I am sure that you should buy this book and provide a third opinion!
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most influential books I have ever read., 1 May 2007
By R. Roberts (Cheltenham, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making of the English Landscape (Paperback)
For me, reading the Pelican edition in 1970 sparked a lifelong interest in the history, meaning and aesthetic of the landscape. Yes, it is 'parochial' in some ways - but if you're studying English local history the detail of a Parish (or a farm, or a field) is an appropriate unit of study. Yes. it has more to say about some places than others, but that's because it is based on painstaking personal observation and research. The magic of this little book is that by focussing on detail it gives a glimpse of the incredibly complex history of the use of the land and the relationship between our everyday surroundings and our history.

My only criticism is that in the final chapter Hoskins descends into some rather despondent criticism of change during his lifetime. Though many might agree about the insensitivity of post-war 'development', it's a shame that he couldn't see this to some extent in historical perspective, comparing it perhaps with the 'vandalism' of earlier townscapes by Georgian then Victorian developers. Not everything that happened to the landscape in the 20th Century was bad, though one can understand the concern of a historian that too much of the record was being lost, too quickly.

Buy this book, read it carefully and quietly and you might see your surroundings with new eyes. But to see the landscape as Hoskins saw it, you'll have to get out of the car and walk, stop, take your time, look, look again and be curious about what you see.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The grandaddy of landscape history, 10 April 2007
By Mr. T. Butcher "El Tel" (Bourne, Lincs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This book has been updated on a number of occasions so make sure you get the latest version, Amazon sent me an earlier version that was no use at all. Since then I have acquired the corrected version that updates Hoskins to more recent finds and it really proves what a pioneer he was, how astute some of his work was and how much the science of landscape studies has advanced. This book is a must for all students and brings forward that nothing within the landscape stands in isolation and there is virtually nothing in the English landscape that has not been put there by man. Read this book first then you will become a better landscpae historian and archaeologist.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A classic history, flawed by bias in its final chapters
William George Hoskins (1908-1992) was a pioneering figure in the field of English local history, and in 1965 was appointed as the first ever university professor in that... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars A fair book, it covers most aspects of the english landscape
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