English Farming, Past and Present (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century)

Prothero, Rowland E.

Cambridge University Press（2013/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 524 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108062480
• DDC分類 630.942

Full Description

The author and politician Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851-1937), an expert on British agricultural history, held the post of President of the Board of Agriculture in David Lloyd George's cabinet between 1916 and 1919. In 1885 he had written an article for the Quarterly Review in which he traced the progress of English agriculture since the middle ages. This was expanded into a book, published in 1888 as The Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. Then, in 1912, Prothero revised and greatly expanded it under its current title, bringing the story up to date. This classic work charts the development of farming from the medieval manorial system up to the Corn Laws in the nineteenth century and the agricultural crises that confronted administrators at the beginning of the twentieth. The appendices include a chronological list of agricultural writers as well as data on the Corn Laws, tithes, acreage and wages.

Contents

Preface; 1. The manorial system of farming; 2. The break-up of the manor; 3. Farming for profit; 4. The reign of Elizabeth; 5. From James I to the restoration; 6. The later Stewarts and the revolution; 7. Jethro Tull and Lord Townshend; 8. The stock-breeder's art and Robert Bakewell; 9. Arthur Young and the diffusion of knowledge; 10. Large farms and capitalist farmers; 11. Open-field farms and pasture commons; 12. The English corn laws; 13. Highways; 14. The rural population; 15. Agricultural depression and the poor law; 16. Tithes; 17. High farming; 18. Adversity; 19. Conclusion; Appendices; Index.