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Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain (Paperback)
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Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain (Paperback)
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A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English
agriculture in the early modern period. In the late middle ages it
was hard to see that English agriculture was so very different from
that of the continent, but by 1750 levels of agricultural
productivity in Britain were well ahead of those general in
northern Europe. The country had become much more urban and the
proportion of the population engaged in agriculture had fallen.
Customary modes of behaviour, whilst often bitterly defended, had
largely been swept away. Contemporaries were quite clear that a
process of improvement had taken place which had seen agriculture
reshaped and made much more productive. Exactly what that process
was has remained surprisingly obscure. This volume addresses the
fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British
landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
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.
Disputes between tenants and landlords, and between neighbouring
landlords, over improvement meant that new economic and social
identities were forged in the battle between innovation and
tradition. The volume also includes an analysis of the role of
women as agricultural improvers and a case study of what can happen
when radical improvement failed. The volume will be essential
reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian
history, but will also provide a useful context for anybody
studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the
environment and its social, economic, legal and political
consequences.
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