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Examines The Socially Induced Processes Of Landscape Change In The Iberian Peninsula Across The Moving Border Between Christians And Muslims And Sociopolitical Developments After The Christian Triumph. Also Demonstrates The Application Of A Universalizing Hypothesis Of Landscape Change And The Organization Of Rural Society. Covering The Entire Period From The Islamic Conquest Of The Visigoths To The Lower Middle Ages, Describes And Interprets The Maze Of Recent Archaeological Results That Have Been Virtually Ignored In English Scholarship.-- Preface: Three Key Transitions -- 1. The Late Roman Landscape -- 2. The Countryside Of Al-andalus: A New Model Of Settlement. Castles And Villages In Al-andalus ; The Castle/village Complex ; Berbers In Al-andalus -- 3. The Paleoandalusi Period: A New Culture Emerges. Historical Inferences From The Ceramic Record ; Paleoandalusi Settlements: The Marshes Of The Eastern Coast ; Paleoandalusi High Culture: Science ; Conversion To Islam ; Religious And 'social' Conversion -- 4. Irrigation In Al-andalus: A Reassessment. Irrigation In The Mediterranean World ; A Local Control Model Of Irrigation In Al-andalus ; Meso-scale Irrigation Systems ; Norias

Author

Glick, Thomas F.

Publisher

Manchester [England] ; New York: Manchester University Press: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719033490

Subjects

History, Humanities