Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, Agricultural Change: Policy and Practice, 1500–1750

Material from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, in paperback with new introductions.

Joan Thirsk (Edited by)

9780521368827, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 March 1990

372 pages
22.9 x 2.1 x 15.2 cm, 0.61 kg

'This is an outstanding achievement in scholarship and will remain the standard work of reference.' British Book News

Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership. Dealing respectively with pieces, wages, profits and rents; estate management and the condition of the farm labourer; agricultural techniques and enclosure; marketing; and rural building, these studies bring together the fruits of co-operative scholarship from authorities on the social and economic history of rural England and Wales in the early modern period. To set each subject in context and to update material where necessary, new introductions have been written by the authors of each volume.

List of plates and tables
Editor's preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Farming techniques, 1500–1640 Joan Thirsk
2. Enclosing and engrossing, 1500–1640 Joan Thirsk
3. Selected bibliography, 1500–1640
4. Agricultural policy: public debate and legislation, 1640–1750 Joan Thirsk
5. Tithes, 1640–1750 Eric J. Evans
6. Market gardening in England and Wales, 1640–1750 Malcolm Thick
7. Agricultural innovations and their diffusion, 1640–1750 Joan Thirsk
8. Selected bibliography, 1640–1750
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ]