John Langton
Biographic Data
| ID | 278844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Langton |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Langton |
| SIGNATURE | LANGTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Forest vert: The holly and the ivy
Forests were precisely bounded areas devoted primarily to hunting ‘venison’, which mainly comprised deer. They covered large areas of the countryside and continued to exist through early modern times. The forest laws that facilitated hunting also protected, as ‘vert’, the vegetation through which deer were chased and in which they fed, bred and sheltered, but allowed the use of vert for many purposes unconnected with hunting, exercised by forest …
Royal and non-royal forests and chases in England and Wales: Royal and non-royal forests and chases in England and Wales
Journal Article Royal and non-royal forests and chases in England and Wales Get access John Langton John Langton University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 88, Issue 241, August 2015, Pages 381–401, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12098 Published: 08 July 2015
Forest fences: Enclosures in a pre-enclosure landscape
The word 'fence' is used here generically to denote any structure created to prevent or impede movement across the countryside. They ought to have been absent from forests, where obstructions to the free passage of deer and hunters were forbidden by forest law, which in principle, therefore, preserved open countryside. The patchwork of settlements and enclosed private fields of the characteristic English landscape could not emerge until disaffore…
Forests and chases in Wales and the Welsh Marches: An exploration of their origins and characteristics
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy. Edited by Paul A. Rahe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 388p. $75.00. This collection of original essays by a distinguished team of political theorists and historians may well be, as John McCormick proclaims on the book's dust jacket, “the best and most accessible source for the ‘Straussian’ perspective on Machiavelli's influence over modern political thought.” But unfortunately, no explicit ef…
Proletarianization in the Industrial Revolution: Regionalism and Kinship in the Labour Markets of the British Coal Industry from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
Were labour markets highly segmented or well integrated in the past? Do they become better integrated over time as modem economic growth unfolds? These are important questions. (Hatton and Williamson 1993, 89) Profits depend on successful responses to prices in commodity and factor markets, which did not exist before capitalism. Entrepreneurs are most likely to succeed if they operate in perfect markets. In the labour market this requires flexibi…
Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Ostergotland in the Nineteenth Century
Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Ostergotland in the Nineteenth Century
Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Ostergotland in the Nineteenth Century
Peasantry to capitalism : Western Ostergotland in the nineteenth century - Hoppe,G, Langton,J
The North-South divide: The origins of Northern consciousness
The Two Traditions of Geography, Historical Geography and the Study of Landscapes
(1988). The Two Traditions of Geography, Historical Geography and the Study of Landscapes. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 70, Landscape History: Papers from the 1987 meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, pp. 17-25
The production of regions in England's Industrial Revolution: A response
Atlas of Industrialising Britain 1780-1914
Publius and Political Anthropology: Explaining the Transformation of the United States, 1781-1789
Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
Machiavelli's Paradox: Trapping or Teaching the Prince
In The Discourses Machiavelli extolled the virtues of republican government, yet in The Prince he advised the ruler on how to perpetuate autocratic rule. What accounts for this paradox? Mary Dietz argues that Machiavelli sought to deceive the prince, trapping him into actions that would destroy his rule. John Langton contends, in contrast, that Machiavelli was seeking to teach the prince how to govern so that the autocratic state could evolve int…
Time-Geography and Economic Development: The Changing Structure of Livelihood Positions on Arable Farms in Nineteenth Century Sweden
This paper has a threefold aim. Firstly, we discuss briefly the analytical perspective of time-geography, originally developed by Hägerstrand. In particular, we suggest that as it has so far been presented, and notwithstanding the numerous claims for its great potential significance on a social theoretical level, 'his methodology has not yet been elaborated to such a degree that it can incorporate links between the day to day activities of indivi…
Weber, Darwinism and Sociocultural Evolution: A Reply to Haines
The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the widespread belief, shared by geographers and historians, that industrial- ization destroyed regional distinctiveness in England as elsewhere. After an outline of the complex regional structure of pre-industrial England, it is demonstrated that all kinds of social movements and political pressure groups were regionally fragmented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, that distinctive s…
Geography and geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945
The Behavioural Theory of Evolution and the Weber Thesis
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is probably the most famous, controversial, and frequently misinterpreted work produced by a social scientist in this century. By demonstrating that this seminal work is predicated on a more or less explicit version of the behavioural theory of sociocultural evolution, this article should accomplish two major goals. First, it should shed new light on the Weber thesis itself and on the …
Reply to Nolan
Reply to Blute
Geographical Change and Industrial Revolution: Coalmining in South West Lancashire, 1590-1799
The economic changes of the industrial revolution came to different parts of England at different times. By examining the geography of these changes, this book shows how the pattern of production in an important coalfield changed as it became part of the regional economic system developing around the port of Liverpool. In the first part of the book the author develops a model for studying the geography of economic change by combining the economic…
The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the widespread belief, shared by geographers and historians, that industrial- ization destroyed regional distinctiveness in England as elsewhere. After an outline of the complex regional structure of pre-industrial England, it is demonstrated that all kinds of social movements and political pressure groups were regionally fragmented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, that distinctive s…
Residential Patterns in Pre-Industrial Cities: Some Case Studies from Seventeenth-Century Britain
The models of pre-nineteenth-century cities formulated by Sjoberg and Vance are compared. The two writers postulated different kinds of social ecology because they based their deductions about spatial patterns upon different social structures, and this difference, in turn, resulted from their use of different economic variables as sociological determinants. An analysis of the hearth tax returns for three British cities, and of data produced by li…
Late Medieval Gloucester: Some Data from a Rental of 1455
Information abstracted from a rental concerning types of property, rents, landholding and occupations is described and mapped. There was considerable crowding on the main street fronts of late medieval Gloucester. Competition for housing was expressed in'subdivided tenements and the spatial patterning of rents, and it gave rise to investment in real estate develop- ment, probably by church as well as lay landholders. Much of the city was owned by…
Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
Atlas of Industrialising Britain 1780-1914
Darwinism and the Behavioral Theory of Sociocultural Evolution: An Analysis
This paper challenges the widely held view that the social sciences are theoretically impoverished disciplines which have failed to develop anything comparable to the paradigms used in the natural sciences. More precisely, the aim is to demonstrate that the synthesis of an abstract, Darwinian model of systematic adaptation and the bahavioral principles of social learning produces a theory of sociocultural evolution having the logical structure an…
Machiavelli's Paradox: Trapping or Teaching the Prince
In The Discourses Machiavelli extolled the virtues of republican government, yet in The Prince he advised the ruler on how to perpetuate autocratic rule. What accounts for this paradox? Mary Dietz argues that Machiavelli sought to deceive the prince, trapping him into actions that would destroy his rule. John Langton contends, in contrast, that Machiavelli was seeking to teach the prince how to govern so that the autocratic state could evolve int…
Geographical Interpretations of Historical Sources
The Behavioural Theory of Evolution and the Weber Thesis
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is probably the most famous, controversial, and frequently misinterpreted work produced by a social scientist in this century. By demonstrating that this seminal work is predicated on a more or less explicit version of the behavioural theory of sociocultural evolution, this article should accomplish two major goals. First, it should shed new light on the Weber thesis itself and on the …
The North-South divide: The origins of Northern consciousness
An introduction to scientific reasoning in geography
The Two Traditions of Geography, Historical Geography and the Study of Landscapes
(1988). The Two Traditions of Geography, Historical Geography and the Study of Landscapes. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 70, Landscape History: Papers from the 1987 meeting of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, pp. 17-25
Forests and chases in Wales and the Welsh Marches: An exploration of their origins and characteristics
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy
Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy. Edited by Paul A. Rahe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 388p. $75.00. This collection of original essays by a distinguished team of political theorists and historians may well be, as John McCormick proclaims on the book's dust jacket, “the best and most accessible source for the ‘Straussian’ perspective on Machiavelli's influence over modern political thought.” But unfortunately, no explicit ef…
The production of regions in England's Industrial Revolution: A response
Publius and Political Anthropology: Explaining the Transformation of the United States, 1781-1789
Weber, Darwinism and Sociocultural Evolution: A Reply to Haines
Geography and geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945
The pathway of progress in Historical Geography
Parish Registers and Urban Structure: The example of late-eighteenth century Liverpool
Readers of the Yearbook may readily ascertain from its register of research and bibliography that the energy applied to the urban history of Victorian England has not only been substantial but is far from expended. The attraction of huge amounts of raw material, both quantitative and literary, is difficult to resist. However, the challenge of seeking less solidly founded insights with the less abundant and more indirect sources of the eighteenth …
Coal Output in South-West Lancashire, 1590-1799
Coal Output in South-West Lancashire 1590-1799
The University of Toronto in 1856
Early Days in Upper Canada: Letters of John Langton
Geographical Interpretations of Historical Sources
Coal Output in South-West Lancashire, 1590-1799
Three Generations of British Historical Geography
Coal Output in South-West Lancashire 1590-1799
Residential Patterns in Pre-Industrial Cities: Some Case Studies from Seventeenth-Century Britain
The models of pre-nineteenth-century cities formulated by Sjoberg and Vance are compared. The two writers postulated different kinds of social ecology because they based their deductions about spatial patterns upon different social structures, and this difference, in turn, resulted from their use of different economic variables as sociological determinants. An analysis of the hearth tax returns for three British cities, and of data produced by li…
A history of British pewter
An introduction to scientific reasoning in geography
Late Medieval Gloucester: Some Data from a Rental of 1455
Information abstracted from a rental concerning types of property, rents, landholding and occupations is described and mapped. There was considerable crowding on the main street fronts of late medieval Gloucester. Competition for housing was expressed in'subdivided tenements and the spatial patterning of rents, and it gave rise to investment in real estate develop- ment, probably by church as well as lay landholders. Much of the city was owned by…
Parish Registers and Urban Structure: The example of late-eighteenth century Liverpool
Readers of the Yearbook may readily ascertain from its register of research and bibliography that the energy applied to the urban history of Victorian England has not only been substantial but is far from expended. The attraction of huge amounts of raw material, both quantitative and literary, is difficult to resist. However, the challenge of seeking less solidly founded insights with the less abundant and more indirect sources of the eighteenth …
English towns in transition 1500–1700
The early modern town: A reader
The pathway of progress in Historical Geography
Darwinism and the Behavioral Theory of Sociocultural Evolution: An Analysis
This paper challenges the widely held view that the social sciences are theoretically impoverished disciplines which have failed to develop anything comparable to the paradigms used in the natural sciences. More precisely, the aim is to demonstrate that the synthesis of an abstract, Darwinian model of systematic adaptation and the bahavioral principles of social learning produces a theory of sociocultural evolution having the logical structure an…
English towns, 1500–1700
Reply to Nolan
Reply to Blute
Geographical Change and Industrial Revolution: Coalmining in South West Lancashire, 1590-1799
The economic changes of the industrial revolution came to different parts of England at different times. By examining the geography of these changes, this book shows how the pattern of production in an important coalfield changed as it became part of the regional economic system developing around the port of Liverpool. In the first part of the book the author develops a model for studying the geography of economic change by combining the economic…
Geography and geographers: Anglo-American human geography since 1945
The Behavioural Theory of Evolution and the Weber Thesis
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is probably the most famous, controversial, and frequently misinterpreted work produced by a social scientist in this century. By demonstrating that this seminal work is predicated on a more or less explicit version of the behavioural theory of sociocultural evolution, this article should accomplish two major goals. First, it should shed new light on the Weber thesis itself and on the …
Weber, Darwinism and Sociocultural Evolution: A Reply to Haines
The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the widespread belief, shared by geographers and historians, that industrial- ization destroyed regional distinctiveness in England as elsewhere. After an outline of the complex regional structure of pre-industrial England, it is demonstrated that all kinds of social movements and political pressure groups were regionally fragmented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, that distinctive s…
Time-Geography and Economic Development: The Changing Structure of Livelihood Positions on Arable Farms in Nineteenth Century Sweden
This paper has a threefold aim. Firstly, we discuss briefly the analytical perspective of time-geography, originally developed by Hägerstrand. In particular, we suggest that as it has so far been presented, and notwithstanding the numerous claims for its great potential significance on a social theoretical level, 'his methodology has not yet been elaborated to such a degree that it can incorporate links between the day to day activities of indivi…
Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
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