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The Transformation of Rural England - Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870 (Paperback)
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The Transformation of Rural England - Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870 (Paperback)
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This is the first book to study in detail the making of the rural
English landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For
decades historians have debated the nature, timing and even the
existence of the 'agricultural revolution'. This book approaches
the debate from a new direction: that of landscape archaeology. It
argues that there was not one 'agricultural revolution' but many.
The enclosure of open fields and the reclamation of heath and
downland - spearheaded by aristocratic improvers and large
capitalist farmers - mesmerised contemporaries. But most enclosures
had little to do with the improvement of arable farming, large
landowners played a minor role and the really revolutionary changes
took place elsewhere, in parts of England which were not
characterised by large estates, and were the work of tenant farmers
rather than landowners.
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