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Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain
- Title
- Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain / edited by Richard W. Hoyle.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hoyle, R. W. (Richard W.)
- Description
- x, 317 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Landlord and tenant > England > History
- England > Rural conditions
- England > Economic conditions
- Country life > England > History
- Land use, Rural > England > History
- Human ecology > England > History
- Landscape changes > England > History
- Agriculture > England > History
- England > Environmental conditions
- Landscapes > England > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cromwell v. Taverner : landlords, copyholders, and the struggle to control memory in mid sixteenth-century Norfolk / R.W. Hoyle -- Anthony Bradshaw and the preservation of custom in early modern Duffield / Heather Falvey -- Contested pasts : custom, conflict, and landscape change in early modern East Anglia / Nicola Whyte -- The idea of improvement, c.1520-1770 / Paul Warde -- The common fields of urban England : communal agriculture and the "politics of entitlement," 1500-1750 / H.R. French -- Custom, improvement, and anti-improvement in early modern Britain : approvement and improvement in early modern wasteland enclosure / Bill Shannon -- "A country life" : Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk, 1583-1654 / Liz Griffiths -- Between the corporation and Captain Flood : the fens and drainage after 1663 / Julie Bowring -- "All towards the improvements of the estate" : Mrs. Elizabeth Prowse at Wicken (Northamptonshire), 1764-1810 / Briony McDonagh -- Improvement on the Grant estates in Strathspey in the later eighteenth century : theory, practice, and failure / Alasdair Ross.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2626
- ISBN
- 9781409400523 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1409400522 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010045028
- OCLC
- 677974030
- Title
- Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain / edited by Richard W. Hoyle.
- Imprint
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hoyle, R. W. (Richard W.)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2626