Add to ORKGThe period between the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Great War is crucial for an understanding of present-day rural and agricultural issues. The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns. The book is organised into seven parts. It begins with a critical review of the course of agricultural change. The elements of the pattern are then considered separately: farming regions, systems, techniques, and institutions; then the three principal socio-economic classes - landowners, farmers, and labourers. Part IV explores the broad industrial framework and Part V the social dimension. The volu...
The study of rural history and social unrest in the English countryside has concentrated largely on ...
This chapter provides a broad introduction to rural society and the forces of change. Beginning wit...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine changes in rural settlement in eastern Suffolk over the per...
Alun Howkins' panoramic survey is a social history of rural England and Wales in the twentieth centu...
The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, soci...
2 The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, so...
The transformation of a preindustrial rural community into part of modern industrialized society is ...
Rural observers of the acceleration in Ontario's urbanization witnessed, in the years before the Gre...
Rural observers of the acceleration in Ontario's urbanization witnessed, in the years before the Gre...
The movement of rural labour and the workings of the rural labour market have all too often been neg...
Although the early twentieth century was a period of unprecedented agricultural prosperity, the stat...
Although the early twentieth century was a period of unprecedented agricultural prosperity, the stat...
The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, soc...
The discipline of sociology developed largely in response to social transformations associated with ...
peer reviewedIn the early nineteenth century, eastern Belgium was the first region on the European c...
The study of rural history and social unrest in the English countryside has concentrated largely on ...
This chapter provides a broad introduction to rural society and the forces of change. Beginning wit...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine changes in rural settlement in eastern Suffolk over the per...
Alun Howkins' panoramic survey is a social history of rural England and Wales in the twentieth centu...
The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, soci...
2 The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, so...
The transformation of a preindustrial rural community into part of modern industrialized society is ...
Rural observers of the acceleration in Ontario's urbanization witnessed, in the years before the Gre...
Rural observers of the acceleration in Ontario's urbanization witnessed, in the years before the Gre...
The movement of rural labour and the workings of the rural labour market have all too often been neg...
Although the early twentieth century was a period of unprecedented agricultural prosperity, the stat...
Although the early twentieth century was a period of unprecedented agricultural prosperity, the stat...
The focus of this research has been on how the county of Hertfordshire negotiated the economic, soc...
The discipline of sociology developed largely in response to social transformations associated with ...
peer reviewedIn the early nineteenth century, eastern Belgium was the first region on the European c...
The study of rural history and social unrest in the English countryside has concentrated largely on ...
This chapter provides a broad introduction to rural society and the forces of change. Beginning wit...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine changes in rural settlement in eastern Suffolk over the per...