An Atlas of Rural Protest in Britain 1548-1900
Author: Andrew Charlesworth
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781315113364
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Routledge Library Editions - Rural History Set
Author: Routledge
Publisher:
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 4274
ISBN-13: 9781138894815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.
Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-14
Total Pages: 4340
ISBN-13: 1351624814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the rural history and provide an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine social change in rural communities approaching the industrial revolution, whilst also providing an overview of the history of rural populations in England, France, Germany, Mexico and the United States. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.
English Rural Society, 1200-1350
Author: J. Z. Titow
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1351625713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title, first published in 1969, is concerned with historic documents and their uses, and with a discussion of living standards among the peasants, as it is the author’s belief that any worthwhile discussion is impossible without an understanding of the sources and their limitations. With its emphasis on the controversial and debateable, this book is admirable proof that a study of medieval history is not merely a matter of memorising facts.
Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900
Author: David Hoseason Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1351720546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the second half of the nineteenth century the enormous increase in agricultural production, unmatched by technical advance in harvesting, drew vast numbers of rural and migrant workers into the harvest that lasted from June to October. This book, first published in 1982, examines the technology, conditions and customs of the harvest and, through that, the life of the rural population of central England from the 1840s until the end of the century when hand tools finally gave way to mechanisation. The economic framework of the period in agriculture is set out and there flows a detailed analysis of hand tools and work methods in the harvest. The population of harvesters, agricultural labourers and their entire families, townspeople and the gangs of migrant workers are studied, as are the crops they harvested.
The Rural Idyll
Author: G. E. Mingay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1351721216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1989, recounts the changing perceptions of the countryside throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, helping us to understand more fully the issues that have influenced our view of the ideal countryside, past and present. Some of the chapters are concerned with ways in which Victorian artists, poets, and prose writers portrayed the countryside of their day; others with the landowners’ impressive and costly country houses, and their prettification of ‘model’ villages, reflecting fashionable romantic and Gothic styles. This title will be of interest to students of history.
The Changing English Countryside, 1400-1700
Author: Leonard Cantor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1351730207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period covered by this book, first published in 1987, was an important one for the rural landscape in England. The main features of the countryside are dealt with fully and examples are given of their remains which can still be identified in the landscape today.
The Modernization of Rural France
Author: Roger Price
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1351695088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation, and the widening of horizons, new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian, the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic, sociological, historical and geographical methods and data.
The Rural World 1780-1850
Author: Pamela Horn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1351739840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was like for the vast majority of English villagers – agricultural labourers, craftsmen and small farmers – during a period of rapid agricultural development. This study analyses the influence of the enclosure movement on farming methods and on the structure of village life, and examines the devastating effects of the Napoleonic wars on English society. The Rural World is based on a wide range of sources, including parliamentary papers, contemporary letters, diaries and account books, and official records such as those relating to the Poor Law and the courts. It provides a fascinating overview of all aspects of rural life – from employment to home conditions, education, charity, crime, the role of religion and the influence of politics – during a critical period in English history.
A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720
Author: Sheldon J. Watts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1351720406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to understand the lives – both internal and external – of rural people in his fascinating period that is so central to everyone’s past.
