Title & Author:

The English rural landscape / edited by Joan Thirsk.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Description:

352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-341) and index.
Downlands / Joseph Bettey -- Wolds. The wolds before c. 1500 / Harold Fox ; A longer view of the wolds / Bernard Jennings -- Lowland vales / Christopher Dyer, David Hey, and Joan Thirsk -- Woodlands and wood-pasture in western England / Christopher Dyer -- Forests and wood-pasture in lowland England / Brian Short -- Marshes / Anne Reeves and Tom Williamson -- Fenlands / Christopher Taylor -- Moorlands / David Hey -- Common land / Alan Everitt -- Frontier valleys / Charles Phythian-Adams -- Stonor : a Chilterns landscape / Leslie W. Hepple and Alison M. Doggett -- Hook Norton, Oxfordshire : an open village / Kate Tiller -- Eccleshall, Staffordshire : a bishop's estate of dairymen, dairy wives, and the poor / Margaret Spufford -- Staintondale, North Yorkshire : a moorland estate of the Knights Hospitaller / Barry Harrison -- Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire : an estate of the Land Settlement Association / Pamela Dearlove.
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Summary:

"From pre-history to the present day our landscape has been transformed by dramatic human disturbance, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built-up layers of evidence which today present historians with exciting new insights into land use and rural communities of the past." "The English Rural Landscape shows us how much of the rural past is still visible on the ground if only we choose to dig for it. This book illustrates how we might go about exploring it for ourselves and is set to become the definitive work on the subject for all would-be landscape and local history detectives, professional and amateur alike."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

019866219X
9780198662198

Subject:

Land use, Rural England History.
Landscapes England History.
Paysages Angleterre Histoire.
Utilisation agricole du sol Angleterre Histoire.
Historical geography.
Land use, Rural.
Landscapes.
Rural conditions.
Ländlicher Raum
Siedlung
Landleben
Landwirtschaft
Landschappen.
Landgebruik.
Landschaft England Geschichte.
Ländlicher Raum Entwicklung England.
Ländlicher Raum Grossbritannien England Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung.
England Historical geography.
England Rural conditions.
Angleterre Conditions rurales.
Angleterre Géographie historique.
England.
Großbritannien
England Historische Geographie.
England Ländlicher Raum Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Thirsk, Joan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212634
Call No.: DA667 .E6 2000
Status: Available