The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870
This is the first book to study in detail the making of the rural English landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For decades historians have debated the nature, timing and even the existence of the 'agricultural revolution'. This book approaches the debate from a new direction: that of landscape archaeology. It argues that there was not one 'agricultural revolution' but many. The enclosure of open fields and the reclamation of heath and downland-spearheaded by aristocratic improvers and large capitalist farmers-mesmerized contemporaries. But most enclosures had little to do with the improvement of arable farming, large landowne…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85989-634-4
- EAN: 9780859896344
- Produktnummer: 22687713
- Verlag: Liverpool Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.5 cm x D1.5 cm 599 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 599
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