Descript |
x, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Contents |
Cromwell v. Taverner : landlords, copyholders, and the struggle to control memory in mid sixteenth-century Norfolk / R.W. Hoyle -- Anthony Bradshaw and the preservation of custom in early modern Duffield / Heather Falvey -- Contested pasts : custom, conflict, and landscape change in early modern East Anglia / Nicola Whyte -- The idea of improvement, c.1520-1770 / Paul Warde -- The common fields of urban England : communal agriculture and the "politics of entitlement," 1500-1750 / H.R. French -- Custom, improvement, and anti-improvement in early modern Britain : approvement and improvement in early modern wasteland enclosure / Bill Shannon -- "A country life" : Sir Hamon Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk, 1583-1654 / Liz Griffiths -- Between the corporation and Captain Flood : the fens and drainage after 1663 / Julie Bowring -- "All towards the improvements of the estate" : Mrs. Elizabeth Prowse at Wicken (Northamptonshire), 1764-1810 / Briony McDonagh -- Improvement on the Grant estates in Strathspey in the later eighteenth century : theory, practice, and failure / Alasdair Ross. |
ISBN |
9781409400523 (hbk.) |
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1409400522 (hbk.) |
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