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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wittering, Shirley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Windgather Press, 2013.
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; On weights, measures, money and areas; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Character of South Cambridgeshire; Chapter 2: The Village Community before Enclosure; Chapter 3: Farming before Enclosure; Chapter 4: The Enclosure Process; Chapter 5: Designing the New Landscape; Chapter 6: Post-enclosure Agriculture; Chapter 7: The Post-enclosure Community; Chapter 8: The Environmental Consequences of Enclosure; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Evidence for manorial sheep flocks before enclosure.
  • Appendix 2: Growing Sanfoin 22.1.1789Appendix 3: List of those Asssenting, Dissenting or Neutral; Appendix 4: Size and nature of moors or commons; Appendix 5: CRO 292/02-36 Fowlmere Petition 1845; Appendix 6: Flora; Appendix 7: Pampisford Hall, date of planting of trees; Appendix 8: CUL DOC 652-113. Stinting rules; Appendix 9: Average number of people per house from the censuses; Bibliography.