Land, Labour and Agriculture, 1700-1920


Book Description

The challenges and opportunities offered to British farming by the profound changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries make these years of outstanding interest to the agricultural historian. These original essays are presented to Gordon Mingay, the most distinguished historian of the Agricultural Revolution, and reflect his own interests in three central themes; landownership and landed society; rural labour; and agriculture both as a business and as a way of life.










William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture


Book Description

The first major study of the rural and cultural career of William Cobbett engages Cobbett's own writings, and other innovative sources such as popular songs, to tie Cobbett's radical politics to rural society.