People like to believe in a past golden age of "traditional" English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. Yet crops from the past like flax, hemp, rapeseed, and woad are gradually reappearing in the "modern" countryside. Thirsk reveals how the forces which drive the current interest in alternative forms of agriculture--a glut of mainstream meat and cereal crops, changing patterns of diet, the needs of medicine--have striking parallels with earlier periods of English history, emphasizing that solutions to current problems can still be found in the hard-won experience of people in the past.

Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day

History

THIRSK, Joan

Europe

Oxford University Press

Joan Thirsk, former Reader in Economic History, University of Oxford.

Seventeenth-century economic documents,

Business & Money

Economics

Clarendon Press

17TH CENTURY ECONOMIC DOCUMENTS

Cooper, J. P.

Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England

The 16th and 17th centuries in England saw a remarkable diversification of industry fostered largely by the government, which sought to reduce expensive imports and lessen dependence on foreign goods. These new sources of production expanded employment, and thus brought the growing population into the economy and provided for the emergence of a consumer society. Emphasizing the role of labor in creating wealth, political economists thereafter formulated a new view of the economy. This volume provides an insightful analysis of this transformation and looks at the impact new consumer industries had on the English economy and economic ideas.

Agricultural Regions and Agrarian History in England, 1500-1750 (Studies in Economic and Social History)

Industries

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

English Peasant Farming (Economic History)

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times (Economic History)

Reference

Routledge

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms has been added for the non-specialist.

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800 (Past and Present Publications)

Goody, Jack

THOMPSON, E.P.

Cambridge University Press

What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago?  How much did they talk about food?  Did their eating habits change much?  Our knowledge is mostly superficial on such commonplace routines, but this book digs deep and finds surprising answers to these questions.  We learn that food fads and fashions resembled those of our own day.  Commercial, scientific and intellectual movements were closely entwined with changing attitudes and dealings about food.  In short, food holds a mirror to a lively world of cultural change stretching from the Renaissance to the industrial Revolution.  This book also strongly challenges the assumption that ordinary folk ate dull and monotonous meals.

Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions, 1500-1760

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Continuum

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