This interdisciplinary 1984 volume extends the debate about the purpose and practice of historical geography.

Preface; 1. Reflections on the relations of historical geography and the Annales school of history Alan R. H. Baker; 2. Hegemony, class and power in late Georgian and early Victorian England: towards a cultural geography Mark Billinge; 3. Contours in crisis? Sketches for a geography of class struggle in the early Industrial Revolution in England Derek Gregory; 4. Agricultural revolution? Development of the agrarian economy in early modern England Mark Overton; 5. 'Modernization' and the corporate medieval village community in England: some sceptical reflections Richard M. Smith; 6. Some terrae incognitae in historical geography: an exploratory discussion Alan R. H. Baker and Derek Gregory; Notes to the text; Index.