Studies in Economic and Social History England's Agricultural Regions and Agrarian History,1500-1750 Joan Thirsk lstituto Unlversltarlo Archltettura Venezia STUT EU GB 7 Servizio Bibliograflco Audlovlsivo e di Documentazione Agricultural Regions and Agrarian History in England, 1500-1750 Prepared for the Economic History Society by JOAN THIRSK Sometime R eader in Economic History in the University of Oxford M MACMILLAN EDUCATION l Contents List of Maps 6 Acknowledgements 7 Note on References 7 Editor's Preface 8 Introduction 9 2 Agricultural Regions in General 10 3 Some Regional Classifications Illustrated and Compared 23 4 Types of English Landscape and Farming Regions: a Simplified Schedule 5 Agricultural Innovations: an Agricultural Revolution? 37 56 Glossary 62 Notes 64 Select Bibliography 66 Index 75 5 Studies in Economic and Social History Edited for the Economic History Society by L. A. Clarkson Each book aims to survey findings and discussion in a field that has been the subject of recent lively debate. It is meant as an introduction for readers who are not themselves professional researchers but who want to know what the discussion is all about - students, teachers and others generally interested in the subject. The authors, rather than either taking a strongly partisan line or completely suppressing their own critical faculties, set out the arguments and problems as fairly and completely as they can. A full bibliography for further study is included. Joan Thirsk England's Agricultural Regions and Agrarian History, 15001750 Recent literature on the agricultural history of the period 1500--1750 has been extensive. Historians have emphasised the complexity of England's agricultural regions with their separate farming systems, the variety of technical innovations and the diverse consequences of change for different areas and different classes of farmers. The results and conclusions of all this work are not easily digested. Thus this pamphlet aims, first, to introduce the reader to the literature and to explain why historians have mapped the agricultural regions with varying boundaries; secondly, to present a simplified plan of farming regions as a basis for understanding the main features of their distinctive landscapes; and, thirdly, to explain the debate on the economic significance of agricultural innovations before 1750. With an annotated bibliography and a glossary of terms this is a valuable introduction to the current debate about the origins and nature of the agricultural revolution. Joan Thirsk was sometime Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford and is an Honorary Fellow of St. Hilda's College, Oxford . Cover illustration: frontispiece from John Worlidge's Vinetum Britannicum or Treatise of Ci&l-"c.LL694). Reproduced by permission of the University of Reading, lnstiti.:' ENGLAHos AGR L..l·li~torv and Museum of English Rural Life. THIRSK J ICUL TIJRAL REGIONS • Order No· 8 . Dept : 004 71204C7137 ISBN . 03331 Shelf Loe :ECH . 91687 : 1 __ 11 11111111111111111iifB1 iiii. c lsfftufo Unlversi •ISBN 0-333-19 " ,11111 9 780333 191 s E Servizio Biblii e di De
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