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Short, Brian

 
9780521405676: The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis

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This book examines the English rural community, past and present, in its variety and dynamism.

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Descrizione del libro

This book examines the English rural community, past and present, in its variety and dynamism. The distinguished team of contributors brings a variety of disciplinary perspectives to bear upon the central issues of movement and migration. Fully illustrated with accompanying maps, paintings and photographs, The English Rural Community provides an important and innovative overview of a subject where history, myth and debate are inseparably entwined.

Contenuti

1. Images and realities in the English rural community: an introduction Brian Short; 2. The evolution of contrasting communities within rural England Brian Short; 3. English rural communities: structures, regularities, and change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Joan Thirsk; 4. Population movement and migration in pre-industrial rural England Malcom Kitch; 5. The English farm labourer in the nineteenth century: farm, family and community Alun Howkins; 6. Sportive labour: the farmworker in eighteenth-century poetry and painting John Barrell; 7. Images of the rural in popular culture 1750–1990 Stuart Laing; 8. The mystical geography of the English John Lowerson; 9. The rural/urban fringe as battleground Peter Ambrose; 10. Image and analysis: new directions in immunity studies Susan Wright.

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9780521405379: The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis

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ISBN 10:  0521405378 ISBN 13:  9780521405379
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1992
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