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Ecology and Enclosure : the Effect of Enclosure on Society, Farming and the Environment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798-1850.
South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demand for food, which in turn led to enclosure. But this desir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Windgather Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demand for food, which in turn led to enclosure. But this desire to plough every available piece of land resulted in the destruction of many valuable and distinctive habitats that had existed for centuries. The Ecology of Enclosure breaks new ground in comparing the effect of Parliamentary Enclosure with the findings of the enthusiastic 'Botanisers' from Cambri. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781909686007 190968600X 9781909686021 1909686026 |