Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, Agricultural Change: Policy and Practice, 1500-1750Joan Thirsk Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership. Dealing respectively with pieces, wages, profits and rents; estate management and the condition of the farm labourer; agricultural techniques and enclosure; marketing; and rural building, these studies bring together the fruits of co-operative scholarship from authorities on the social and economic history of rural England and Wales in the early modern period. To set each subject in context and to update material where necessary, new introductions have been written by the authors of each volume. |
Contents
I | 7 |
Farming techniques 15001640 | 15 |
C | 30 |
D | 49 |
Enclosing and engrossing 15001640 | 58 |
D | 94 |
public debate and legislation 16401750 | 125 |
b Beer and spirits | 161 |
A Setting the scene in 1640 | 263 |
B 16401660 | 272 |
C | 278 |
D | 292 |
F Conclusion | 317 |
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Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3 ... Joan Thirsk No preview available - 1990 |
Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3 ... Joan Thirsk No preview available - 1990 |
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acres Agrarian agricultural improvement areas barley Bedfordshire bill Blith breeding clover common fields corn counties crops CSPD cultivation debate depopulation Dymock early EcHR Economic eighteenth century enclosing and engrossing enclosure encouraged England English Ephemerides exports farmers farming fattening favour fens flax forests fruit gentlemen gentry Gervase Markham grain grass grazing growing Hartlib hemp Herefordshire Hist History hops horses House husbandmen husbandry Industry innovation interest Irish cattle John John Beale Kent kitchen gardeners Konrad Heresbach labour land landowners legislation Leicestershire Lincolnshire livestock London Lord madder malt market gardening Markham meadows Midland Norfolk Northamptonshire nurseries nurserymen Oxford Oxfordshire parish parliament parliamentary period plants plough poor produce profit sainfoin seed seventeenth century sheep sixteenth century social soils Statutes Suffolk Surrey tenants Thirsk tillage tithe trade trees turnips Vale of Evesham vegetables villages vols W. G. Hoskins Wales Warwickshire wheat Wiltshire woad wool Worlidge Yorkshire
Popular passages
Page 116 - CH Firth and RS Rait (eds), Acts and ordinances of the interregnum, 1642-1660, 3 vols (London, 1911), i.