Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain

Autor: Richard W. Hoyle
Rok vydání: 2017
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315258638
Popis: Contents: Introduction: custom, improvement and anti-improvement, R.W. Hoyle Cromwell v Taverner: landlords, copyholders and the struggle to control memory in mid-16th century Norfolk, R.W. Hoyle The articulation, transmission and preservation of custom in the forest community of Duffield (Derbyshire), Heather Falvey Contested pasts: custom, conflict and landscape change in West Norfolk, c.1550-1650, Nicola Whyte The idea of improvement, c.1520-1700, Paul Warde The common fields of urban England: communal agriculture and the 'politics of entitlement', 1500-1750, H.R. French Approvement and improvement in thelLowland wastes of early modern Lancashire, Bill Shannon 'A country life': Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk, 1583-1654, Elizabeth 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 18th century: theory, practice and failure, Alasdair Ross Index.
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