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by Paul M. Reed, Albert Collins Cline, E. E. Tarbox, Henry Byron Peirson, J. Nelson Spaeth, John Beebe Downs, Paul Rupert Gast, Reuben Tom Patton, Richard Thornton Fisher, Robert Marshall, Robert Wallace Averill, Suren Rubenian Gevorkiantz, Neil Wetmore Hosley, Walter Boardman Averill, Wingate Irving Stevens
1921
by Patrice Mériaux, Paul Royet
2007 · Editions Quae
This technical guide is intended for personnel within services or structures involved in managing dikes that protect against floods in the case of a rise in river levels. It is intended for an audience of technicians and it aims to popularise: the functioning principles concerning a system of dikes, the risks run, monitoring methods and maintenance methods. Its aim is to justify and describe all the necessary measures to ensure the long life and security of the constructions.
This pioneering book is based upon very extensive analysis of the famous 1851 Census of Religious Worship and earlier sources such as the 1676 Compton Census. The authors stress contextual and regional understanding of religion. Among the subjects covered for all of England and Wales are the geography of the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, the old and new dissenting denominations, the spatial complementarity of denominations, and their importance for political history. A range of further questions are then analysed, such as regional continuities in religion, the growth of religious pluralism, Sunday schools and child labour during industrialisation, free and appropriated church sittings, landownership and religion, and urbanisation and regional 'secularisation'. This book's advanced methods and findings will have far-reaching influence within the disciplines of history, historical and cultural geography, religious sociology and in the social science community general.