Böcker av Leona Skelton

The book fully situates the Tyne's fluvial transformations within political, economic, cultural, social and intellectual contexts.

Study of 500 years of the Tyne that undermines the traditional reduction of rivers to mere backdrops to human activities. Eschewing narratives equating change with improvement, and declensionist ones of destruction, it focuses on the production of new rivers, situating the Tyne's transformations in political, economic, cultural and social contexts