Author: G. R. BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Soils of the Liverpool District (sheet 108).
Author: G. R. BeardSoils of the Liverpool District (sheet 108).
Author: G. R. BeardLiverpool and Surrounding Area
Author: John M. FORDCustom, 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.
Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology
Author: Geological Survey of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey ... and Museum of Practical Geology
Author: Geological Survey of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
A new series, embracing annual "scientific results" and certain administrative statistics.
Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology for ...
Author: Geological Survey of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Whitaker's Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 3116
Book Description
Report
Author: Rothamsted Experimental StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Reports for 1908-1929 include Supplement to the "Guide to the experimental plots".
Report - Rothamsted Experimental Station
Author: Rothamsted Experimental StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description