Custom, improvement, and the landscape in early modern Britain
A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. This book addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers.
History
9781409400523, 1409400522
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Cromwell v. Taverner : landlords, copyholders, and the struggle to control memory in mid sixteenth-century Norfolk / R.W. Hoyle
Anthony Bradshaw and the preservation of custom in early modern Duffield / Heather Falvey
Contested pasts : custom, conflict, and landscape change in early modern East Anglia / Nicola Whyte
The idea of improvement, c.1520-1770 / Paul Warde
The common fields of urban England : communal agriculture and the "politics of entitlement," 1500-1750 / H.R. French
Custom, improvement, and anti-improvement in early modern Britain : approvement and improvement in early modern wasteland enclosure / Bill Shannon
"A country life" : Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk, 1583-1654 / Liz Griffiths
Between the corporation and Captain Flood : the fens and drainage after 1663 / Julie Bowring
"All towards the improvements of the estate" : Mrs. Elizabeth Prowse at Wicken (Northamptonshire), 1764-1810 / Briony McDonagh
Improvement on the Grant estates in Strathspey in the later eighteenth century : theory, practice, and failure / Alasdair Ross