Chapters of The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 5, The Buildings of the Countryside, 1500–1750

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

M. W. Barley (Edited by)

9780521368803, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 March 1990

488 pages
22.8 x 15.7 x 2.9 cm, 0.75 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, tables and fext-figures
Editor's preface
List of abbreviations
Part I. Rural Building in England: Introduction M. W. Barley
1. Rural housing in England, 1500–1640 M. W. Barley
2. Rural building in England, 1640–1750 M. W. Barley
Part II. Rural Building in Wales: Introduction Peter Smith
3. Rural housing in Wales, 1500–1640 Peter Smith
4. Rural building in Wales, 1640–1750 Peter Smith
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Agriculture & farming [TV], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1], Architecture [AM]