Overview
- Applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy
- Analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence
- Highlights the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history.
This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Localities
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eric L. Jones is Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England
Book Subtitle: An Economic and Environmental Perspective
Authors: Eric L. Jones
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68616-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68615-4Published: 09 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68618-5Published: 09 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68616-1Published: 08 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 199
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics