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	Readings for Advanced Students and for Special Topics on Watermills and Windmills
 
For those needing references to more information on mills, milling, and the present state of mills in North America, we offer the following information.
 
Watermills
 
        - Beenhakker, AJ. Windmills and Watermills in Iceland (Reading: International Molinological Society,1976). 
           
        
 
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          Benney, Dennis Edward. An Introduction to Cornish 
            Watermills (Truro, UK: Barton, 
            1972). 
        
 
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          Brittain, Robert Edward. Rivers, Man, and Myths; 
            from fish spears to water mills 
            (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958). 
        
 
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          Carus-Wilson, E. M. "An Industrial Revolution 
            of the Thirteenth Century." The Economic History Review 11 (1941): 39-60. 
        
 
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          Carus-Wilson, E. M. "The Woolen Industry." 
            In Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages, 
            ed. M. M. Postan and Edward Miller. Vol. 2 of The Cambridge 
            Economic History of Europe. Ed. 
            M. M. Postan and H. J. Habakkuk. (2d ed. Cambridge, 1966). 
        
 
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          Chant, Colin, The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology 
            Reader. Cities and Technology. 
            (London, 1999). 
        
 
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          Evelyn, John, Fumifugium: or, The inconvenience 
            of the aer and smoake of London dissipated. 
            (Reprint: London, National Society for Clean Air, 1961). 
        
 
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          Glacken, Clarence J, Traces on the Rhodian Shore: 
            Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End 
            of the Eighteenth Century (Berkeley, 
         1967). 
        
 
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          Goldthwaite, Richard A., The Building of Renaissance 
            Florence: An Economic and Social History. 
            Baltimore, 1980. 
        
 
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          al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. and Donald R. Hill, Islamic 
            Technology: An Illustrated History. 
            (Cambridge, 1986). 
        
 
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          Hill, Donald R, A History of Engineering in Classical 
            and Medieval Times (London, 1984). 
            
        
 
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          Hoffmann, Richard C., "Economic Development 
            and Aquatic Ecosystems in Medieval Europe," Journal of American 
            History 101 (1996): 631-669. 
        
 
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          Holt, Richard, Mills of Medieval England
 (Oxford, UK / New York, NY: B. Blackwell, 1988). 
        
 
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          Horn, Walter and Ernest Born, The Plan of St. 
            Gall: A Study of the Architecture and Economy and Life in a Paradigmatic 
            Carolingian Monastery (Berkeley, 
            1979).
        
 
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          Horn, Walter and Ernest Born, "Water Power 
            and the Plan of St. Gall," Journal of Medieval History 
            1 (1975): 219-58. 
        
 
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          Hughes, J. Donald, Pan's Travail: Environmental 
            Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans 
            (Baltimore, 1993). 
        
 
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          Lillich, Meredith Parsons, "Cleanliness with 
            Godliness: A Discussion of Medieval Monastic Plumbing," in Mélanges 
            à la Mémoire du Père Anselme Dimie, 
            ed. Benoît
        
 
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          Chauvin (Arbois, 1982). 
        
 
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          Llewellyn, Charles, The Mill's Life: from the 
            Domesday Book to the Millennium 
            (New York: Robson Books/Parkwest, 1998). 
        
 
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          Luckhurst, David, Monastic Watermills: a study 
            of the mills within English monastic 
            precincts (London: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 
            1964). 
        
 
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          Mazzaoui, Maureen Fennell, " The Cotton Industry 
            of Northern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: 1150-1450," Journal 
            of Economic History 32 (1972) 
            262-286. [available on JSTOR]
        
 
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          Monmonier, Mark S, Mapping It Out: Expository 
            Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciencesà (Chicago, 1993). 
        
 
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          Muendel, John, "The 'French' Mill in Medieval 
            Tuscany," Journal of Medieval History 
            10 (1984) 215-247 
        
 
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          Muendel, John, "Medieval Urban Renewal: The 
            Communal Mills of the City of Florence, 1351-1382, Journal of 
            Urban History 17 (1991) 363-389. 
        
 
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          Muendel, John, "The Internal Functions of a 
            14th-Century Florentine Flour Factory," Technology and Culture 32 (1991) 498-520. 
        
 
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          Outwater, Alice, Water: A Natural History (New York, 1996). 
        
 
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          Price, Lorna, The Plan of St. Gall in Brief: 
            An Overview Based on the Work by Walter Horn and Ernest Bornà (Berkeley, 1982). 
        
 
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          Reynolds, Terry S., Stronger than a Hundred Men: 
            A History of the Vertical Water Wheel 
            (Baltimore, 1983). 
        
 
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          Smith, Cyril Stanley, ed., Mappae clavicula; 
            a little key to the world of medieval techniques 
            (Philadelphia, 1974). 
        
 
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          Smith, Elizabeth Bradford, Technology and Resource 
            Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines 
            (Aldershot, 1997). 
        
 
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          Smith, Norman, A History of Dams (London, 1971). 
        
 
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          Squatriti, Paolo, "Water and Society in Late 
            Antique and Early Medieval Italy A.D. 400-850," Ph.D. diss., 
            University of Virginia, 1990. 
        
 
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          Squatriti, Paolo, Water and Society in Early 
            Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000 (Cambridge, 
            1998). 
        
 
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          Squatriti, Paolo, "'Advent and Conquests' of 
            the Water Mill in Italy," In Technology and Resource Use in 
            Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines, 
            edited by Elizabeth Bradford Smith,. (Ashgate, 1997)
        
 
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          TeBrake, William H., "Air Pollution and Fuel 
            Crises in Pre- Industrial London, 1250-1650," Technology and 
            Culture, 16 (July, 1975) 337-359. 
        
 
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          Thorndike, Lynn, "Sanitation, Baths, and Street 
            Cleaning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Speculum, 3 (1928) 192-203. 
                  
 
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          Wailes, Rex, A Source Book of Windmills and Watermills (London: Ward Lock, 1979). 
        
 
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          Wikander, Örjan, Exploitation of Water-power 
            or Technological Stagnation? A Reappraisal of the Productive Forces 
            in the Roman Empire (Lund, 1984). 
        
 
       
 
Windmills  
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          Beedell, Suzanne, Windmills (New York: Scribner's, 1979).
        
 
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          Brangwyn, Frank and Hayter Preston, Windmills (Detroit: Gale, 1975).
        
 
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          Brown Joseph E. and Anne Ensign Brown, Harness 
            the Wind: The Story of Windmills 
            (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977).
        
 
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          Carnell, Glyn, "Turning Back the Clock," 
            Out of Town Magazine (UK) v.5, 
            #2 (February, 1988) 56-7.
        
 
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          Darby, H. C., The Draining of the Fens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940).
        
 
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          Dennis, Landt, Catch the Wind: a Book of Windmills 
            and Windpower (New York: Four 
            Winds Press, 1976).
        
 
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          Flint, Brian, Windmills of East Anglia (Ipswich, England: F. W. Pawsey & Sons, 1977).
        
 
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          Forss, Derek, "Up on the Downs," In 
            Britain (November, 1987) 44-45.
        
 
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          Freese, Stanley, Windmills and Millwrighting (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957).
        
 
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          Holt, Richard, "The Medieval Mill--A Productivity 
            Breakthrough?" History Today, 
            v.39 (July, 1989) 26-31.
        
 
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          Hopkins, Robert, Old Windmills of England (New York: W. F. Payson, 1930).
        
 
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           Hopkins, Robert, In Search of English Windmills (London: C. Palmer, 1931).
        
 
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          Howes, Hugh and Richard Minton, "Gone..with 
            the Wind: A Survey of the Survival of England's Mills," This 
            England, v.12, #4 (Winter, 1979/80) 42.
        
 
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          Kealy, Edward. J, Harvesting the Air: Windmill 
            pioneers in 12th century England 
            (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
        
 
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          Langdon, John, "The Mobilization of Labour 
            in the Milling Industry of Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Century 
            England," Canadian Journal of History, 
            v.31, #1 (April, 1996) 37-59.
        
 
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          Mais, Stuart, England of the Windmills, (London: J.M Dent, 1931).
        
 
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          Major, J. Kenneth and Martin Watts, Victorian 
            and Edwardian Windmils and Watermills 
            (London: B. T. Batsford, 1977).
        
 
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          Reynolds, John, Windmills and Watermills (New York: Praeger, 1970). 
        
 
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          Skilton, C. P., British Windmills and Watermills (London: Collins, 1947).
        
 
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          Smith, Terence Paul, "The English Medieval 
            Windmill," History Today, 
            v.28, #4 (April, 1978) 40-45.
        
 
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          Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: 
            English Windmills, 2 volumes 
            (London: Architectural Press, 1932).
        
 
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          Wailes, Rex, The English Windmill (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954).
        
 
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           Wailes, Rex, Windmills in England: A Study of 
            Their Origin, Development and Future 
            (London: C. Skilton, 1975).
        
 
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          West, Jenny, The Windmills of Kent (London: Skilton & Shaw, 1979).
        
 
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          Zupko, Ronald E. and Laures, Robert A., Straws 
            in the Wind: Medieval Urban Environmental Law, the Case of Northern 
            Italy (Boulder, 1996). 
        
 
       
 
 
								
								  
							 
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