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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Agrarian History of England and Wales: 1640-1750, edited by Joan Thirsk. pt.1. Regional farming systems. pt.2. Agrarian change
Author: The Agrarian History of England and Wales: pt. 1. 1640-1750, Regional farming systems
Author: The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Author: Edward John T. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521329279
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Author: Joan ThirskThe Agrarian History of England and Wales....
Author: Joan ThirskPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521257756
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 5, 1640-1750, Part 2, Agrarian Change
Author: Joan ThirskPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521257756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
This is a detailed study of English and Welsh agriculture and agricultural change in the period 1640 to 1750. It is the work of nineteen specialists, who have used original archives in local record offices throughout the kingdom, as well as central records. The volume examines the special economic and social circumstances of these years, and the changing price relationships of agricultural produce. It traces consequent changes in farm profits; the diversification of agriculture; the development of more regional specialisation and of horticulture; the emergence of agricultural policy that was both broader and yet looser in its objectives than before; the responses of landowners as estate managers and farmers; the elaboration of marketing facilities and of channels of communication for advertising new ways in farming. A richly illustrated account is given of building developments on farms, and in villages generally. An appendix contains annual and decennial price and wage indexes.
The Draining of the Fens
Author: Eric H. AshPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422018
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England's waterlogged Fens. 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering projects in seventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English "projectors," working over several decades and with the full support of the Crown, transformed hundreds of thousands of acres of putatively barren wetlands into dry, arable farmland. The drainage project was also supposed to reform the sickly, backward fenlanders into civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth. As projectors reconstructed entire river systems, these new, artificial channels profoundly altered both the landscape and the lives of those who lived on it. In this definitive account, historian Eric H. Ash provides a detailed history of this ambitious undertaking. Ash traces the endeavor from the 1570s, when draining the whole of the Fens became an imaginable goal for the Crown, through several failed efforts in the early 1600s. The book closes in the 1650s, when, in spite of the project's enormous difficulty and expense, the draining of the Great Level of the Fens was finally completed. Ash ultimately concludes that the transformation of the Fens into fertile farmland had unintended ecological consequences that created at least as many problems as it solved. Drawing on painstaking archival research, Ash explores the drainage from the perspectives of political, social, and environmental history. He argues that the efficient management and exploitation of fenland natural resources in the rising nation-state of early modern England was a crucial problem for the Crown, one that provoked violent confrontations with fenland inhabitants, who viewed the drainage (and accompanying land seizure) as a grave threat to their local landscape, economy, and way of life. The drainage also reveals much about the political flash points that roiled England during the mid–seventeenth century, leading up to the violence of the English Civil War. This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.
The Invention of Enterprise
Author: David S. LandesPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069115452X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
This work provides a sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovation activity in the Western world.
The Agrarian History of England and Wales, 1640-1750
Author: Joan ThirskPublisher: Agrarian History of England an
ISBN: 9781107401181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
The Agrarian History of England and Wales
Author: Joan ThirskPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521200769
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
General editor, v. 1, pt. 1, v. 5, pt. 1-2, v. 8: Joan Thirsk. Includes bibliographies. v. 1, pt. 1. Prehistory. v. 1, pt. II. A.D. 43-1042.-- v. 2. 1042-1350.-- v. 3. 1348-1500, edited by Edward Miller.-- v. 4. 1500-1640, edited by J. Thirsk.-- v. 5. 1640-1750, edited by Joan Thirsk (2 v.) -- v. 7, pt. 1- 2. 1850-1914 -- v. 8. 1914-39, by E.H. Whetham.