The Transformation of Rural England

Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870

Tom Williamson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2002
University of Exeter Press (Verlag)
978-0-85989-634-4 (ISBN)

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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 - mesmerised contemporaries. But most enclosures had little to do with the improvement of arable farming, large landowners played a minor role and the really revolutionary changes took place elsewhere, in parts of England which were not characterised by large estates, and were the work of tenant farmers rather than landowners.

Tom Williamson is lecturer in landscape history at the University of East Anglia and has written widely on agricultural history, landscape archaeology and the history of garden design.

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Introduction
Publisher’s Note
1. Woodlands, Forests and Parks
2. Landscapes of Colonisation
3. Lines in the Landscape
4. Routeways
5. Status, Authority and the Landscape
6. Landscapes of Belief
7. Villages, Hamlets and Farmsteads
8. Reading the Fieldscape
9. Defence in the Landscape
Index

Sprache	englisch
Maße	187 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-85989-634-X / 085989634X
ISBN-13	978-0-85989-634-4 / 9780859896344
Zustand	Neuware