Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"...a treasure...places England in the vanguard of scholarship on the social and economic history of modern Europe." English Historical Review"...will remain an authoritative work of reference for many years to come." The Times Higher Education Supplement"...an outstanding achievement in scholarship and will remain the standard work of reference." British Book News
Synopsis
Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales, Volume IV and Volume V, Part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student readership.
Table of Contents
List of text-figures and tables; Editor's preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Agricultural prices, farm profits and rents, 1500-1640; 2. Statistical appendix, 1500-1640; 3. Select bibliography, 1500-1640; 4. Agricultural prices, wages, farm profits and rents, 1640-1750; 5. Statistical appendix, 1640-1750; 6. Selected bibliography, 1640-1750; Index.