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Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870
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Product Description
This book tells the human and environmental story of the 'Age of Improvement', the period between 1720 and 1870 when the British countryside was made to serve the cause of the nation's industrial expansion. The book integrates the period's social and landscape history, and focuses on the farmer's experience. The book draws on the rich detail of farmers' own accounts, from Caithness to East Anglia. It shows how new farming landscapes were the result of new, capitalist relationships between landlords and the farmers who implemented their ideas. Planned farms were not always uniform and dull, and in some areas they contributed much to regional distinctiveness. We meet the people who transformed the Georgian and Victorian countryside, and analyse their achievement.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #508219 in Books
- Published on: 2004-05-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
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About the Author
Susanna Wade Martins is a research fellow at the Centre of East Agnian Studies, University of East Anglia, and a past Chair of the Historic Farm Buildings Group.
