This book on Cumberland and Westmorland shows clearly the human struggle, by successive generations, to overcome a hard, if beautiful, environment and hostile neighbours. Since peace prevailed the region has enjoyed both an agricultural and industrial revolution, before tourism took over from trade and nuclear power from coal. “Compact enough for the general reader and scholarly enough for the student ...” Keswick Reminder
- ISBN10 1860770096
- ISBN13 9781860770098
- Publish Date 3 May 1996 (first published 1 January 1978)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The History Press Ltd
- Imprint Phillimore & Co Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 152
- Language English
- URL http://thehistorypress.co.uk/products/A-History-of-Cumberland-and-Westmorland.aspx