Landscape History And Rural Society In Southern England

Author : Eric L. Jones
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030686161

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Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England by Eric L. Jones Pdf

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history. This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history.

Author : Margaret Spufford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028638497

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Figures in the Landscape by Margaret Spufford Pdf

Examining the peasants' reaction to the reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries, this volume looks at the changes in the church and considers the possibility of the lower classes founding dissenting churches.

Author : Joan Thirsk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : England
ISBN : 0198606192

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Rural England by Joan Thirsk Pdf

From prehistory to the present day, our landscape has been transformed by successive periods of human activity, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built up layers of evidence which offer historians exciting insightsinto land use through the centuries and how rural communities of the past lived their lives. In this ground-breaking study - published in hardback as The English Rural Landscape and now available in paperback - Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the places they describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Eachchapter synthesizes the latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its subject. It is the first book since W. G. Hoskins' definitive study The Making of the English Landscape, published nearly 50 years ago, to do so. The first ten chapters describe the characteristic features of the main landscape types, including fenland, downland, woodland, marshland, and moorland. However geographically scattered areas of a particular landscape type are, they have often been moulded by successive generations in ways that haveproduced strong physical similarities. The second part of the book is made up of five cameo features, each exploring an individual place in detail: the people and the distinctive histories that shaped them. These include the Land Settlement experimental village of Fen Drayton, set up during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and surveysof the very different settlements of Hook Norton in North Oxfordshire and Staintondale in North Yorkshire. Rural England: A History of the Landscape shows us how much of the rural past is still visible if we choose to dig for it. It illustrates how we might go about exploring it for ourselves. It is the definitive work on the history of the English landscape for all would-be landscape and local historydetectives, professional and amateur alike.

Author : Eric Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527525436

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A History of Livestock and Wildlife by Eric Jones Pdf

The use of wildlife products, together with advances in livestock feeding, were essential in propelling Western economic growth. Extraordinarily, these early modern and early industrial features are side-lined relative to the role of manufacturing. This book restores the balance, detailing how many species were relocated around the world and how late natural products persisted into the age of synthetics. This text describes how animals were driven immense distances to market and harnessed for transportation and to power machines; even after industrialisation, animals were employed for innumerable purposes, besides being co-opted as pets. The recent rebound from a wholesale persecution of wild nature, and how the plundering of the animal kingdom and the development of livestock farming jointly created the Smithian Growth that ushered in the Industrial Revolution, are also described.

Author : Brian Short
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052140567X

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The English Rural Community by Brian Short Pdf

This book examines the English rural community, past and present, in its variety and dynamism. The distinguished team of contributors brings a variety of disciplinary perspectives to bear upon the central issues of movement and migration; the farm family and rural labour force; the development of contrasting rural communities; the portrayal of rural labour in both 'high' and popular culture; the changing nature of religious practice in the English countryside; the rural/urban fringe, and the spread of notions of a rural English arcadia within a predominantly urban society. Fully illustrated with accompanying maps, paintings and photographs, The English Rural Community provides an important and innovative overview of a subject where history, myth and debate are inseparably entwined. A full bibliography will assist a broad range of general readers and students of social history, historical geography and development studies approaching the subject for the first time, and the whole should establish itself as the central analytical account in an area where image and reality are notoriously hard to unravel.

Author : Paul Sterry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780691245553

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The Biodiversity Gardener by Paul Sterry Pdf

A personal account of—and guide to—unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland Britain Over the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has nurtured, both through action and by doing nothing, what has become a small island of flourishing biodiversity in the half-acre garden that surrounds his north Hampshire cottage. By giving nature a free hand, and fostering habitats appropriate to this part of southeast England, he has enabled an abundance of native plant and animal species to call the garden home. This contrasts with the continued decline in biodiversity in the surrounding countryside. In this inspiring and informative book, Sterry tells the story of his own experiences in biodiversity gardening and offers detailed practical advice to anyone who wants to give nature the upper hand on their own bit of land, no matter how small. Hampshire still retains traces of its rich wildlife heritage, but changes in land use over the past half-century have had a devastating impact on local biodiversity. Against this backdrop, The Biodiversity Gardener presents a habitat-driven and evidence-based approach, describing how any gardener can unlock the wildlife potential of their plot and enjoy the satisfaction of watching it become home to a rich array of native species, including butterflies, wildflowers, grasshoppers, amphibians, and fungi. In The Biodiversity Gardener, Sterry explains the ecological imperative of adopting this approach. Collectively, biodiversity gardens could leave a lasting legacy—wildlife oases from which future generations stand a fighting chance of restoring Britain’s natural heritage. The book encourages and empowers readers to create their own biological inheritance for posterity—and shows them how they can do it.

Author : Alun Howkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Country life
ISBN : 0415138841

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The Death of Rural England by Alun Howkins Pdf

This engaging history of rural England and Wales during the twentieth century looks at the role of the countryside as both a place of work and of leisure and looks at the many crises it has suffered during that time.

Author : Christopher Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : England
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039584888

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Village and Farmstead by Christopher Taylor Pdf

Author : John Chapman,Sylvia Seeliger
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110834558

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Enclosure, Environment & Landscape in Southern England by John Chapman,Sylvia Seeliger Pdf

Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424738

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Storied Ground by Paul Readman Pdf

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270552

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Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England by Tom Williamson Pdf

The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interested in the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.

Author : Duncan Wright
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784911263

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Middle Saxon' Settlement and Society: The Changing Rural Communities of Central and Eastern England by Duncan Wright Pdf

This book explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidences, it provides unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in 'Middle Saxon' England.

Author : Christopher Gerrard,Alejandra Gutiérrez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191062117

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The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher Gerrard,Alejandra Gutiérrez Pdf

The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and monarchy to universities are familiar to us and we come into contact with the later Middle Ages every day when we drive through a village or town, look up at the castle on the hill, visit a local church or wonder about the earthworks in the fields we see from the window of a train. The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain provides an overview of the archaeology of the later Middle Ages in Britain between AD 1066 and 1550. 61 entries, divided into 10 thematic sections, cover topics ranging from later medieval objects, human remains, archaeological science, standing buildings, and sites such as castles and monasteries, to the well-preserved relict landscapes which still survive. This is a rich and exciting period of the past and most of what we have learnt about the material culture of our medieval past has been discovered in the past two generations. This volume provides comprehensive coverage of the latest research and describes the major projects and concepts that are changing our understanding of our medieval heritage.

Author : Christopher Dyer,Richard Jones
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1905313799

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Deserted Villages Revisited by Christopher Dyer,Richard Jones Pdf

Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s--including why they were deserted, why some villages survived while others were abandoned, and who was responsible for their desertion--offering a series of exciting insights into the fate of these fascinating sites.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 085989634X

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The Transformation of Rural England by Tom Williamson Pdf

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 and downland - spearheaded by aristocratic improvers and large capitalist farmers - mesmerised contemporaries. But most enclosures had little to do with the improvement of arable farming, large landowners played a minor role and the really revolutionary changes took place elsewhere, in parts of England which were not characterised by large estates, and were the work of tenant farmers rather than landowners.