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  • The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873by Jeremy Burchardt

    Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 85.00

    The living standards of the rural poor suffered a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries; allotment provision was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book offers the first systematic analysis of the early years of the movement. more...

  • A Manufactured Plagueby Abigail Woods

    Earthscan 2004; US$ 48.95

    Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? And why in the epidemic of 2001 did the government's control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and mass slaughter? This groundbreaking and well-researched book shows that for over a century FMD has brought fear tragedy and sorrow- damaging businesses and affecting international relations. Yet these effects were neither inevitable nor caused by FMD itself but were rather the product of the legislation used to control it and in this sense FMD is a 'manufactured' plague rather than a natural one. A Manufactured Plague... more...

  • Farming to Halvesby E. Griffiths; M. Overton

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 80.00

    Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development. more...

  • Agricultural Revolution in Englandby Mark Overton

    Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 31.00

    A comprehensive and accessible survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850, written specifically for students. more...

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