Custom, improvement, and the landscape in early modern Britain
By: [edited by] Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781409400523
Subjects: Landscapes; Rural Land use; Environmental conditions; Landlord and tenant; Landscape changes; Country life; Economic conditions; Human ecology; Agriculture; Rural conditions; History
Table of contents: title: Cromwell v. Taverner : landlords, copyholders, and the struggle to control memory in mid sixteenth-century Norfolk / R.W. Hoyle; title: Anthony Bradshaw and the preservation of custom in early modern Duffield / Heather Falvey; title: Contested pasts : custom, conflict, and landscape change in early modern East Anglia / Nicola Whyte; title: The idea of improvement, c.1520-1770 / Paul Warde; title: The common fields of urban England : communal agriculture and the "politics of entitlement," 1500-1750 / H.R. French; title: Custom, improvement, and anti-improvement in early modern Britain : approvement and improvement in early modern wasteland enclosure / Bill Shannon; title: "A country life" : Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk, 1583-1654 / Liz Griffiths; title: Between the corporation and Captain Flood : the fens and drainage after 1663 / Julie Bowring; title: "All towards the improvements of the estate" : Mrs. Elizabeth Prowse at Wicken (Northamptonshire), 1764-1810 / Briony McDonagh; title: Improvement on the Grant estates in Strathspey in the later eighteenth century : theory, practice, and failure / Alasdair Ross.