How England made the English : from hedgerows to Heathrow /: from hedgerows to Heathrow. (2012)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- How England made the English : from hedgerows to Heathrow /: from hedgerows to Heathrow. (2012)
- Main Title:
- How England made the English : from hedgerows to Heathrow
- Further Information:
- Note: Harry Mount.
- Other Names:
- Mount, Harry, 1971-
- Contents:
- ".. The book explains how the size of the fields is produced by male inheritance laws and the erratic ways of the rambling English hedge, how the industrial revolution created the modern English waistline, and why the Middlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that mde England, too, like the faint pink Aberdeen granite of the kerbstones, and that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits yout he moment you touch down at Heathrow. This book spans new England, as well as the rolling hills and patchwork landscape of Tourist Board England. the hedge-funder's taste for Victorian terraced houses turned into minimalist white boxes, and the steel-reinforced concrete that changed the English city horizon. England and the English have been shaped by our weather, geology and geography; by being a coal-rich, northerly island off the edge of a vast land mass, moored between the Atlantic and the North Sea, warmed by the Gulf Stream" -- Book jacket.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Viking
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Subjects:
- 942
Places & peoples: general & pictorial works
Nationalcharakter
Great Britain -- History -- Miscellanea
Great Britain
England
History
Miscellanea
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780670919154
0670919152 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780670919130
0670919136
9780670919147
0670919144
0670919152 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references ([321]-326) and index.
Note: Print version record. - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.182413
- Ingest File:
- 01_126.xml