Author: John Stow
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: John Stow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533321718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author: John Stow
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Celia Cordle
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1907396039
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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"Out of the Hay and into the Hops explores the history and development of hop cultivation in the Weald of Kent together with the marketing of this important crop in the Borough at Southwark (where a significant proportion of Wealden hops were sold). A picture emerges of the relationship between the two activities, as well as of the impact this rural industry had upon the lives of the people engaged in it. Dr Cordle draws extensively on personal accounts of hop work to evoke a way of life now lost for good. Oral history, together with evidence from farm books and other sources, records how the steady routine of hop ploughing and dung spreading, weeding and spraying contrasted with the bustle and excitement of hop picking (bringing in, as it did, many itinerant workers from outside the community to help with the harvest) and the anxious period of drying the crop. For hops, prey to the vagaries of weather and disease, needed much care and attention to bring them to fruition. In early times their cultivation provided work for more people than any other crop. The diverse processes of hop cultivation are examined within the wider context of events such as the advent of rail and the effects of war, as are changes to the working practices and technologies used, and their reception and implementation in the Weald. Meanwhile, in the Borough, an enclave of hop factors and merchants, whose interests sometimes conflicted with those of the hop growers, arose and then suffered decline. A full account of this trade is presented, including day-to-day working practices, links with the Weald, and the changes in hop marketing following Britain's entry into the European Economic Community. This book provides readers with a fascinating analysis of some three hundred years of hop history in the Weald and the Borough. Hops still grow in the Weald; in the Borough, the Le May facade and the gates of the Hop Exchange are reminders of former trade."--Book description.

Author: Canada. Library of Parliament
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1088

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Author: Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096

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Author: Alfred Allan Kern
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: David Lawrence
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047424107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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The period 1603-1645 witnessed the publication of more than ninety books, manuals, and broadsheets dedicated to educating Englishmen in the military arts. Written with the intention of creating the “complete soldier”, this didactic literature provided gentlemen with the requisite knowledge to engage in infantry, cavalry, and siege warfare. Drawing on military history and book history, this is the first detailed study of the impact of military books on military practice in Jacobean and Caroline England. Putting military books firmly in the hands of soldiers, this work examines the circles that purchased and debated new titles, the veterans who authored them, and their influence on military thought and training in the years leading up to the English Civil War.