Author: MerchantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
An Essay on the Improvement of the Woollen Manufacture
Author: MerchantAn Essay on Wool, Containing a Particular Account of the English Fleece
Author: John LuccockAn Essay on the Manufactures of Ireland
Author: Thomas WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain
Author: Richard W. HoylePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351946633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. In the late middle ages it was hard to see that English agriculture was so very different from that of the continent, but by 1750 levels of agricultural productivity in Britain were well ahead of those general in northern Europe. The country had become much more urban and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture had fallen. Customary modes of behaviour, whilst often bitterly defended, had largely been swept away. Contemporaries were quite clear that a process of improvement had taken place which had seen agriculture reshaped and made much more productive. Exactly what that process was has remained surprisingly obscure. This volume addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Contributors present a variety of cases of how improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape, which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons. Disputes between tenants and landlords, and between neighbouring landlords, over improvement meant that new economic and social identities were forged in the battle between innovation and tradition. The volume also includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers and a case study of what can happen when radical improvement failed. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, but will also provide a useful context for anybody studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.
A Bibliography of Wool and the Woolen Manufacture
Author: Simon Newton Dexter NorthPublisher:
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Category : Wool industry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
A catalogue of the library of the Athenæum. [With] Suppl. 1,2 [and] additions to the library. 1859-93/95
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Author: Athenaeum club librA Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers
Author: J. BischoffPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113694110X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures
Author: James BischoffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sheep
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750
Author: L. W. HansonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521051967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.