Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern BritainRichard W. Hoyle This volume addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the 16th to the 19th century. The contributors present a variety of cases of how improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape, which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons. |
Contents
Figures | 10 |
The Articulation Transmission and Preservation of Custom | 65 |
Custom Conflict and Landscape Change | 101 |
The Idea of Improvement c 15201700 | 127 |
Communal Agriculture | 149 |
Approvement and Improvement in the Lowland Wastes of Early | 175 |
Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton | 203 |
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Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain Taylor & Francis Group No preview available - 2019 |
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