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A Social History of the English Countryside (Hardcover)
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A Social History of the English Countryside (Hardcover)
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The farms, villages, estates and people that characterized the
English countryside were once the mainspring of both the government
and the economy. They supported and responded to the needs of the
nation. Yet rural England has always been threatened: from
epidemics and the famine to the ravages of the Industrial
Revolution. From the end of the 18th century, weakened by enclosure
and depopulation, the countryside battled with an increasing
industrialization and inevitably succumbed. The village had become
a relic, the symbol of a past age visited by those in search of
"Olde Englande". A fundamental change had occurred. G.E.Mingay
traces the rise and fall of rural England from the Middle Ages to
World War II and the development of the countryside as a whole. He
examines the people who owned and farmed the land, often regarded
as a law unto themselves. The rural population was a centre of
rebellion and discontent, riddled with class distinctions and
social divisions, a threat to the society it supported in so many
ways. The English countryside has changed. Mingay shows how and why
this has occurred and the way it has affected the evolution of
society in the 20th century.
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