Land, labour, and agriculture, 1700-1920 : essays for Gordon Mingay
1991, First Edition. London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge- and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #418847
ISBN: 1852850426
Physical description; xxiv, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Gordon Mingay: The Man and Scholar / Theo Barker -- G.E. Mingay: A Bibliography / J. Whyman -- Land, Industry and the Bridgewater Inheritance / Michael Turner -- Measuring the Decline of the Small Landowner / Donald E. Ginter -- The Disappearance of the Cottager and the Squatter from the English Countryside: The Hammonds Revisited / J.V. Beckett -- Agricultural Labourers' Wages and the Cost of Living in Essex, 1790-1840: A Contribution to the Standard of Living Debate / T.L. Richardson -- The Anti-Corn Law League and the Wiltshire Labourer: Aspects of the Development of Nineteenth Century Protest / Edwina Newman -- Kentish Rural Society During the First World War / W.A. Armstrong -- Livestock in Cumberland, 1660-1870 / Robert S. Dilley -- The Origins of High Farming / B.A. Holderness -- Information and Innovation in Early-Victorian Farming Systems / Nicholas Goddard -- Landlord Investment in Farm Buildings in the English Midlands in the Mid Nineteenth Century / A.D.M. Philips -- An Anatomy of English Agriculture, 1870-1914 / F.M.L. Thompson -- Production Problems in British Agriculture During the First World War / Peter Dewey. Subjects; Mingay, G. E. (Gordon Edmund) 1923- Bibliography. Agricultural laborers Great Britain History. Agriculture Economic aspects Great Britain History. Great Britain Rural conditions.
Great Britain Agricultural industries history.
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