Farmers, landlords and landscapes : rural Britain, 1720 to 1870
Wade Martins, Susanna, 1946-2004
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Integrating the period's social and landscape history, this work tells the story of 'the Age of Improvement' - the period between 1720 and 1870 when the British countryside, bound by a great net of new Parliamentary enclosures, was made to serve the cause of the nation's industrial expansion.
Main title:
Farmers, landlords and landscapes : rural Britain, 1720 to 1870 / Susanna Wade Martins.
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Imprint:
Macclesfield : Windgather, c2004.
Collation:
x, 173 p. : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-167) and index.
ISBN:
9780953863099 (pbk)
Dewey class:
333.2
Language:
English
Subject:
Land tenure -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryLand tenure -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryLand use, Rural -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryLand use, Rural -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryAgriculture -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryAgriculture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryInclosures -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryInclosures -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryLandscape -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryLandscape -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryEconomics
BRN:
815413
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