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Real Agricultural Revolution
The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985
Av Paul Brassley, Michael Winter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1333 kr
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An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change.WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk PrizeWINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award "This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of …
Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe, 1700-2000
Av Yves Segers, Leen Van Molle
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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An examination of how farming expertise could be shared and extended, over four centuries.All kinds of knowledge, from traditional know-how to modern science, are socially contingent and the product of an age-long and permanent social struggle. This book unravels the creation and the exchange of …
Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900
Av Christine Fertig, Richard Paping m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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First comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society.The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew rapidly across post-medieval Europe, as rural population and economic growth …
Coming of Age Celebrations on Welsh Landed Estates
Gentry, Culture and Society, c.1770-1920
Av Shaun Evans
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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The first comprehensive study of gentry coming of age celebrations, offering insights into the social and cultural dynamics of estate communities in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales."Coming of age" celebrations were landmark events in the annals of gentry families and for local society, …
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
Av Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1333 kr
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Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society.Early modern Scotland was predominantly rural. Agriculture was the main occupation of most people at the time, so what happened in the countryside was crucial: economically, socially and culturally. The essays collected here …
Farm Accounts in Rural Europe, c.1700-1914
"To Better Know One's Own?"
Av Nathalie Joly, Federico D’Onofrio
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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Analyses how book-keeping and estate accounting transformed attitudes and practices in farm management over three centuries of European history.From the eighteenth until well into the twentieth century, an ideal model developed of a farmer as accountant, who would record economic transactions …
Real Agricultural Revolution
The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985
Av Paul Brassley, Michael Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
389 kr
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An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change.WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society's 2022 Thirsk PrizeWINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award "This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of …
Farming the North Sea Coast, 900-2000
Managing Water, Reclaiming the Land
Inbunden, 2025
1731 kr
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"A brilliant and provocative synthesis of a thousand years of coastal farming." Tim Soens, University of Antwerp, Belgium. The fascinating story of how the North Sea coast has been farmed is ever changing. Long before the industrial revolution, the inhospitable fens and marshes of the low-lying …
Agricultural Modernisation and the Green Revolution in the Twentieth-Century World
Av Miguel Cabo, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1230 kr
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An overarching history of the origins, development, and application of agricultural innovation in the past, and of the paradigms and institutional frameworks in which they were developed throughout the twentieth century.From the late nineteenth century onwards, rural societies and agrarian …
Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936
A Curious Rural Revolt
Häftad, 2026
409 kr
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Brings to life a fascinating page of history in a scholarly but highly readable account of the "tithe war". Co-WINNER: 2025 Thirsk Prize (British Agricultural History Society)During the 1930s, farming communities waged a campaign of "passive resistance" against Tithe Rentcharge, the modern version …
Evolution of Farming in Burgundy, 1700-1840
Innovation and Growth
Inbunden, 2026
1267 kr
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Traces the development of farming in the Burgundian flatlands of eastern France, looking at agricultural productivity, techniques, and the agronomic thinking of ordinary farmers.How did French farmers feed a third more people at the end than at the beginning of the eighteenth century? While …
