books.google.co.uk - This book traces the nature of change within the country community of England and Wales between 1870 and 1918--a period that was, in many respects, a watershed in British history. Horn reveals the powerful underlying stresses and tensions of rural life: people experienced the anxieties of agricultural...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Changing_Countryside_in_Victorian_an.html?id=qUVCUozOq3gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Changing Countryside in Victorian and Edwardian England and Wales
This book traces the nature of change within the country community of England and Wales between 1870 and 1918--a period that was, in many respects, a watershed in British history. Horn reveals the powerful underlying stresses and tensions of rural life: people experienced the anxieties of agricultural recession, the declining influence of the landed classes, the diminishing support for religious institutions, and the disruption of many traditional aspects of rural life.
