List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
1 The Practice of Historical Geography in France
Historical Geography and Geographical History
Geographical Contributions to the Historical Geography of France
Notes
References
2 Peopling and the Origins of Settlement
Introduction
New Methods, Ideas and Findings
Prehistory and Protohistory
The Gallo-Roman Period and the Early Middle Ages to A.D. 1000
Further Aspects of the Peopling of France after A.D. 1000
Notes
References
3 Early Urban Development
Introduction
First Generation : The Classical Legacy
The Dark Ages
Second Generation : Medieval Urbanization
Planned Medieval New Towns
Notes
References
4 Retreat of Rural Settlement
Introduction
Causes of Settlement Contraction
Settlement Retreat Prior to the Fourteenth Century
Settlement Retreat in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Settlement Retreat after the Fifteenth Century
The Continuum of Settlement Adjustment
References
5 Regional Contrasts in Agrarian Structure
Hugh Prince
The Concept of an Agrarian Civilization
The Density of History
Forms and Functions in Agrarian Structures
The Antiquity and Continuity of Agrarian Structures
Dividing France into Two, Three or More Cultural Provinces
A Twofold Division : le Nord and le Midi
Natural Divisions
Cultural Divisions
The Legacy from Rome
A Threefold Division: the Threefield System and Other Field Systems
Roger Dion's Regions of Collectivism, Individualism and Opportunism
Marc Bloch's Regions of Regular Openfields, Irregular Openfields and Bocage
Gaston Roupnel's Division into Southern Individualism, Western Bocage and Northern Campagne
Agrarian Structures in Transition
Mediterranean Features in the Limagnes
Ancient Links with the South Preserved
Northerly Field Systems in the Plaine Marneuse
Agricultural Distress in the Late Nineteenth Century
Agrarian Structures as Systems
Notes
References
6 Reclamation of Coastal Marshland
Introduction
Drainage in Medieval France
The Hollandries of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Drainage in the Nineteenth Century
Notes
References
7 Petite Culture 1750-1850
Population and Resources
The Problem of Poverty
Sharecropping and the Rise of Smallholdings
References
8 Reclamation of Wasteland During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Study of Land Clearance
Wasteland Clearance in the Early Eighteenth Century
The Results of Land Clearance Legislation of the 1760s
Wasteland in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Process of Land Clearance through the Nineteenth Century
Factors Behind Nineteenth Century Land Clearance
Archival Sources
Appendix
Acknowledgments
References
9 Historical Georgaphy of Western France
The Concept of Western France
Regional Divisions
Rural Settlement
Cultivated Land and Waste
Field Patterns
Conclusion
Notes
References
10 Vernacular Architecture and the Peasant House
Introduction
Published Work and Sources
Construction
House Type, Plan and Evolutionary Sequence
The Rectilinear House
Conclusions
Notes
References
11 Agricultural Change in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Did France Undergo an 'Agricultural Revolution'?
The Evidence in Favor
Rural France on the Eve of the Railway Age
The Evidence Against
Advance or Stagnation in French Agriculture After Mid-Century?
Checks and Balances in French Farming
Retrospect and Prospect
Notes
References
12 Industrial Development in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Introduction
The 'Traditional' Industrial Pattern
Advances in Transport and the Emergence of a National Economic System
A New Industrial State?
Notes
References
13 Urban Growth, 1500-1900
Introduction
Urban Growth 1500-1800
Urban Growth in the Nineteenth Century
Baron Haussmann and the Renewal of Inner Paris During the Second Empire
Suburban Paris in the Nineteenth Century
Urban Growth in Provincial France
The Legacy of Nineteenth Century Urbanization
Notes
References
Appendix I Some Sources For The Historical Geography of Rural France in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Introduction
Eighteenth Century Sources
Nineteenth Century Sources
Appendix Note
Appendix References
Appendix II Additional Reading on Themes in the Historical Geography of France