The Farmer in England, 1650-1980 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoyle, Richard W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. Our ignorance of the farmer might be justified by the claim that they are ill-documented, but in fact farmers were normally literate and kept records - day books, journals, accounts. As the essays in this volume show, farm records offer invaluable insights into the farming economy; the records included in this volume are published here for the first time and will help to restore farmers to their rightful position in history as rural entrepreneurs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317031987
• Artikelnr.: 44864633

Autorenporträt

Richard Hoyle is Professor of Rural History at the University of Reading and editor of Agricultural History Review. He also currently founding President of the European Rural History Organisation, EURHO.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Recovering the Farmer
2: A New View of the Fells: Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor and her Cashbook
3: Why Was There No Crisis in England in the 1690s?
4: The Farming and Domestic Economy of a Lancashire Smallholder: Richard Latham and the Agricultural Revolution, 1724-67
5: The Seasonality of English Agricultural Employment: Evidence from Farm Accounts, 1740-1850
6: Farmers and Improvement, 1780-1840
7: Farmers of the Holkham Estate
8: The Landowner as Scientific Farmer: James Mason and the Eynsham Hall Estate, 1866-1903
9: The 'Lady Farmer': Gender, Widowhood and Farming in Victorian England
10: 'Murmurs of Discontent': The Upland Response to the Plough Campaign, 1916-1918
11: Rex Paterson (1903-1978): Pioneer of Grassland Dairy Farming and Agricultural Innovator
12: Compost in Caledonia: The Work of Robert L. Stuart, Organic Pioneer