Farmers, landlords and landscapes

Martins, S. W., 2004, Farmers, landlords and landscapes, Windgather Press, Macclesfield

  • Author : Martins, S. W.
  • Year : 2004
  • Title English : Farmers, landlords and landscapes
  • Publisher : Windgather Press
  • Publisher's Location : Macclesfield
  • ISBN : 0-9538630-9-3
  • Pages : 181
  • Outline : Integrating the period's social and landscape history, this work tells the story of "the Age of Improvement" - the period between 1720 and 1870 when the British countryside, bound by a great net of new Parliamentary enclosures, was made to serve the cause of the nation's industrial expansion.