An English provincial society : North Lancashire 1770-1820
This thesis is concerned to discover the nature of regional identity in Furness and Cartmel, also known as Lancashire North of the Sands, in the 50 years around 1800, and explore the relationship between the essential regional qualities, geographical and cultural, of the area, and the way it was viewed by the human inhabitants. The methodology is heavily biased towards a thorough survey of surviving archival material in the county record offices and public libraries of Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire and the integrating of these sources into a coherent narrative of the period, which is then analysed. Attempts have been made to quantify wherever possible, but the sophistication of the statistical manipulation is kept in proportion to the reliability of the gathered data. Chapter 1 surveys the ways in which regions within England have been defined and the uses to which a regional approach can be put. Chapter 2 provides an introductory overview of the society of the area, concentrating on the degree of population mobility. Chapter 3 examines the development of various economic sectors in the period, and the way in which those sectors were spatially organised, both as a result of natural topography and under
Borwick, Patrick David Robert
Cartmel; Furness; Cumbria
An English provincial society : North Lancashire 1770-1820. This thesis is concerned to discover the nature of regional identity in Furness and Cartmel, also known as Lancashire North of the Sands, in the 50 years around 1800, and explore the relationship between the essential regional qualities, geographical and cultural, of the area, and the way it was viewed by the human inhabitants. The methodology is heavily biased towards a thorough survey of surviving archival material in the county record offices and public libraries of Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire and the integrating of these sources into a coherent narrative of the period, which is then analysed. Attempts have been made to quantify wherever possible, but the sophistication of the statistical manipulation is kept in proportion to the reliability of the gathered data. Chapter 1 surveys the ways in which regions within England have been defined and the uses to which a regional approach can be put. Chapter 2 provides an introductory overview of the society of the area, concentrating on the degree of population mobility. Chapter 3 examines the development of various economic sectors in the period, and the way in which those sectors were spatially organised, both as a result of natural topography and under
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