The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870

by Tom Williamson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085989634X
• ISBN13: 9780859896344
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.7"