Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Transformation of Rural England by : Tom Williamson
Download or read book The Transformation of Rural England written by Tom Williamson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that landscape history (or landscape archaeology) can shed new light on England's "Agricultural Revolution," Williamson (landscape history, U. of East Anglia, UK) explores three major considerations typically ignored in economic history. He examines the importance of the natural environment in molding social, economic, and agrarian arrangements; the way that inherited patterns of spatial patterns and relationships are important in the development of social and economic forms; and how variations in soils, climate, and topography, and enduring patterns of fields and settlements engendered were strongly regional in nature. He identifies four broad types of landscape and traces the different developments in each. Distributed by David Brown Book Co. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR