[Clout] has carefully digested the earliest volumes of government-published statistics and with the aid of computer-generated cartography transformed the numbers there reported into an arrondissement-by-arrondissement comparative picture of ...
This book, first published in 1983, attempts to examine the rural change in France between 1815 and 1914 with a sustained and explicit spatial approach.
Although the text emphasises issues in Great Britain it also compares the rural scene in France, North America, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe and has general relevance for other parts of the developed world.