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Part A. WATERMILLS

  • Beenhakker, AJ. Windmills and Watermills in Iceland (Reading: International Molinological Society,1976).
  • Benney, Dennis Edward. An Introduction to Cornish Watermills (Truro, UK: Barton, 1972).
  • Brittain, Robert Edward. Rivers, Man, and Myths; from fish spears to water mills (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958).
  • Carus-Wilson, E. M. "An Industrial Revolution of the Thirteenth Century." The Economic History Review 11 (1941): 39-60.
  • 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).
  • Chant, Colin, The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader. Cities and Technology. (London, 1999).
  • Evelyn, John, Fumifugium: or, The inconvenience of the aer and smoake of London dissipated. (Reprint: London, National Society for Clean Air, 1961).
  • 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).
  • Goldthwaite, Richard A., The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History. Baltimore, 1980.
  • al-Hassan, Ahmad Y. and Donald R. Hill, Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History. (Cambridge, 1986).
  • Hill, Donald R, A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times (London, 1984).
  • Hoffmann, Richard C., "Economic Development and Aquatic Ecosystems in Medieval Europe," Journal of American History 101 (1996): 631-669.
  • Holt, Richard, Mills of Medieval England (Oxford, UK / New York, NY: B. Blackwell, 1988).
  • 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).
  • Horn, Walter and Ernest Born, "Water Power and the Plan of St. Gall," Journal of Medieval History 1 (1975): 219-58.
  • Hughes, J. Donald, Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans (Baltimore, 1993).
  • Lillich, Meredith Parsons, "Cleanliness with Godliness: A Discussion of Medieval Monastic Plumbing," in Mélanges à la Mémoire du Père Anselme Dimie, ed. Benoît
  • Chauvin (Arbois, 1982).
  • Llewellyn, Charles, The Mill's Life: from the Domesday Book to the millennium (New York: Robson Books/Parkwest, 1998).
  • Luckhurst, David, Monastic Watermills: a study of the mills within English monastic precincts (London: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 1964).
  • 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]
  • Monmonier, Mark S, Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Chicago, 1993).
  • Muendel, John, "The 'French' Mill in Medieval Tuscany," Journal of Medieval History 10 (1984) 215-247
  • Muendel, John, "Medieval Urban Renewal: The Communal Mills of the City of Florence, 1351-1382,Ó Journal of Urban History 17 (1991) 363-389.
  • Muendel, John, "The Internal Functions of a 14th-Century Florentine Flour Factory," Technology and Culture 32 (1991) 498-520.
  • Outwater, Alice, Water: A Natural History (New York, 1996).
  • Price, Lorna, The Plan of St. Gall in Brief: An Overview Based on the Work by Walter Horn and Ernest Born (Berkeley, 1982).
  • Reynolds, Terry S., Stronger than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel (Baltimore, 1983).
  • Smith, Cyril Stanley, ed., Mappae clavicula; a little key to the world of medieval techniques (Philadelphia, 1974).
  • Smith, Elizabeth Bradford, Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines (Aldershot, 1997).
  • Smith, Norman, A History of Dams (London, 1971).
  • Squatriti, Paolo, "Water and Society in Late Antique and Early Medieval Italy A.D. 400-850," Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1990.
  • Squatriti, Paolo, Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, AD 400-1000 (Cambridge, 1998).
  • 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
  • TeBrake, William H., "Air Pollution and Fuel Crises in Pre- Industrial London, 1250-1650," Technology and Culture, 16 (July, 1975) 337-359.
  • Thorndike, Lynn, "Sanitation, Baths, and Street Cleaning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,Ó Speculum 3 (1928) 192-203.
  • Wailes, Rex, A Source Book of Windmills and Watermills (London: Ward Lock, 1979).
  • Wikander, Örjan, Exploitation of Water-power or Technological Stagnation? A Reappraisal of the Productive Forces in the Roman Empire (Lund, 1984).

Part B. WINDMILLS

  • Beedell, Suzanne, Windmills (New York: Scribner's, 1979).
  • Brangwyn, Frank and Hayter Preston, Windmills (Detroit: Gale, 1975).
  • Brown Joseph E. and Anne Ensign Brown, Harness the Wind: The Story of Windmills (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977).
  • Carnell, Glyn, "Turning Back the Clock," Out of Town Magazine (UK) v.5, #2 (February, 1988) 56-7.
  • Darby, H. C., The Draining of the Fens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940).
  • Dennis, Landt, Catch the Wind: a Book of Windmills and Windpower (New York: Four Winds Press, 1976).
  • Flint, Brian, Windmills of East Anglia (Ipswich, England: F. W. Pawsey & Sons, 1977).
  • Forss, Derek, "Up on the Downs," In Britain (November, 1987) 44-45.
  • Freese, Stanley, Windmills and Millwrighting (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957).
  • Holt, Richard, "The Medieval Mill--A Productivity Breakthrough?" History Today, v.39 (July, 1989) 26-31.
  • Hopkins, Robert, Old Windmills of England (New York: W. F. Payson, 1930).
  • Hopkins, Robert, In Search of English Windmills (London: C. Palmer, 1931).
  • 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.
  • Kealy, Edward. J, Harvesting the Air: Windmill pioneers in 12th century England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
  • 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.
  • Mais, Stuart, England of the Windmills, (London: J.M Dent, 1931).
  • Major, J. Kenneth and Martin Watts, Victorian and Edwardian Windmils and Watermills (London: B. T. Batsford, 1977).
  • Reynolds, John, Windmills and Watermills (New York: Praeger, 1970).
  • Skilton, C. P., British Windmills and Watermills (London: Collins, 1947).
  • Smith, Terence Paul, "The English Medieval Windmill," History Today, v.28, #4 (April, 1978) 40-45.
  • Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings: English Windmills, 2 volumes (London: Architectural Press, 1932).
  • Wailes, Rex, The English Windmill (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954).
  • Wailes, Rex, Windmills in England: A Study of Their Origin, Development and Future (London: C. Skilton, 1975).
  • West, Jenny, The Windmills of Kent (London: Skilton & Shaw, 1979).
  • 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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