A01=Alun Howkins
agrarian social change
agricultural labour history
Annual Hiring
Augustus Jessopp
Author_Alun Howkins
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Chelsea Barracks
Corn Production Act
Coroner's Court
Coroner’s Court
countryside poverty studies
Dense
Edward King
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Farm Horses
Fox Hunt
Game Laws
Great Famine
Hop Fields
Jam Factory
James Caird
James King
Lady Bracknell
land reform movements
Long Houses
North Walsham
Poaching Prevention Act
Poor Law
Royal Agricultural Society
rural class structure
Rural England
rural industrialisation
social conflict in English countryside
Sutton Manor
Wilson Fox
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415090667
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 1991. Reshaping Rural England covers the crucial period of English rural history from the high point of Britain's agricultural power in the 1850s and 1860s through to the grim years of the inter-war period. Uncovering many of the myths of an idyllic rural England, Howkins looks in detail at the role of women, the workplace, the family and religion. Topics covered include: * the creation of a stable social order by the rural elites, concealing widespread poverty and disorder. * the economic collapse of the cereal market in the 1870s. * the emergence of trade unions and other forms of social conflict in the countryside. * changes in agricultural production and the horror of war. Alun Howkins combines the concerns of the new social history with original research to produce an accessible and coherent account of the transformation of a society.
Alun Howkins
