Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain

Herausgeber: Hoyle, Richard W

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Produktbeschreibung

A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. This book addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers.

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This book addresses how concepts of improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape - which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons - in the early modern period. It is essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, and for those studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781409400523
• ISBN-10: 1409400522
• Artikelnr.: 41240724

Autorenporträt

Richard W. Hoyle is Professor of Rural History at the University of Reading, UK, and Editor of Agricultural History Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: custom
improvement and anti-improvement
R.W. Hoyle; Cromwell v Taverner: landlords
copyholders and the struggle to control memory in mid-16th century Norfolk
R.W. Hoyle; The articulation
transmission and preservation of custom in the forest community of Duffield (Derbyshire)
Heather Falvey; Contested pasts: custom
conflict and landscape change in West Norfolk
c.1550-1650
Nicola Whyte; The idea of improvement
c.1520-1700
Paul Warde; The common fields of urban England: communal agriculture and the 'politics of entitlement'
1500-1750
H.R. French; Approvement and improvement in thelLowland wastes of early modern Lancashire
Bill Shannon; 'A country life': Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk
1583-1654
Elizabeth Griffiths; Between the Corporation and Captain Flood: the fens and drainage after 1663
Julie Bowring; 'All towards the improvements of the estate': Mrs Elizabeth Prowse at Wicken (Northamptonshire)
1764-1810
Briony McDonagh; Improvement on the Grant estates in Strathspey in the later 18th century: theory
practice and failure
Alasdair Ross; Index.