An Historical Geography of France
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- Author: Xavier de Planhol, Université de Paris I
- Translator: Janet Lloyd
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521031356
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In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s. They demonstrate how, for centuries, France was little more than an ideological concept, despite its natural physical boundaries and long territorial history. They examine the relatively late development of a more complex territorial geography, involving political, religious, cultural, agricultural and industrial unities and diversities. The conclusion reached is that only in the twentieth century had France achieved a profound territorial unity and only now are the fragmentations of the past being overwritten.
Read more- The only book of its kind to appear in the last 50 years before it was first published
- Broad text book that will appeal to many levels
- Authors are arguably France's most distinguished historical geographers
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521031356
- length: 592 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 35 mm
- weight: 0.9kg
- contains: 92 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
Part I. The Genesis of France:
1. The isthmus of Gaul
2. The impact of Rome
3. From Gaul to France
4. The birth of France
Part II. The Traditional Organisation of the Territory of France:
5. The major divisions
6. The secondary divisions
Part III. The Centralisation and Diversification of the French Space:
7. Paris and the Parisian centralisation
8. Cultural action and reaction: unity and diversity
9. The economic differentiation of space
10. The rural exodus and urbanisation
11. The France of large organisations
Notes
Guide to further reading
Bibliography
Index.
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