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Between 1540 and 1920 the English elite transformed the countryside and landscape by building up landed estates which were concentrated around their country hou

This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization p

Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic and environmental roles at a time in which societies are rapidly urbanizing, and the id

This is a major study of the transformation of early modern English rural society. It begins by assessing the three major debates about the character of English