Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain

Book Overview

This book addresses how concepts of improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape - which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons - in the early modern period. It is essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, and for those studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113837959X
• ISBN13: 9781138379596
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"