To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
Ance 02/10/24
Asm 25/09/24
World economic geography is taking on new sig- nificance in the modern age Premodern man's concern with situation and habitat was mainly local, but modern man's concern is more and more world- wide. The pressure of world communism for he- gemony, the pressure exerted by underdeveloped societies to develop their own political and eco- nomic overlordship, the pressure of dynamic science and techn…
Ance 20/09/24
For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…
rst 02/07/24
when we first planned the volumes for the ford humanities project at pricenton we set as our goal a series of essays that would be contributions to that part of american intelectual history which has to do with humanistic scholarship" the present volume is such a contributions and more to. for it apperas that historical scholarship occupies so central and commanding a position in america today …