Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard W. Hoyle.
• Other Names: Hoyle, R. W (Richard W.)
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 307.141209410903; Land use, Rural -- England -- History; Landscapes -- England -- History; Landscape changes -- England -- History; Landlord and tenant -- England -- History; Agriculture -- England -- History; Country life -- England -- History; Human ecology -- England -- History; England -- Rural conditions; England -- Economic conditions; England -- Environmental conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351946636; 1351946633
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.