Farming to Halves [electronic resource] : The Hidden History of Sharefarming in England from Medieval to Modern Times /
Griffiths, E.author.
Overton, M.author.
Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Frontispiece; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Sharefarming in England: Theory and Practice; 3 Sharefarming before 1500: A Hidden Practice; 4 Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence; 5 Seventeenth-Century Case Studies: Farming to Halves on Four Norfolk Estates; 6 Sharefarming Disappears from the Documents in the Eighteenth Century; 7 Profit-sharing and Land Reform in the Nineteenth Century; 8 A Return to Halves in the Twentieth Century; 9 Sharefarming at the Turn of the 21st Century; 10 Conclusions
Appendix 1 A Survey of Sharefarming and its Variants in EnglandAppendix 2 Letting to Halves at East and West Rudham in 1693; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development.
Great Britain—History.
Economic history.
Geography.
Europe—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Industries.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Economic History.
Geography, general.
European History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Industries.