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A Short History of English Agriculture
William Henry Ricketts Curtler
From communal fields to the manor to the enclosures, English farming reinvented itself again and again. W. H. R. Curtler traces the whole arc: communistic farming, the growth of the manor, early prices, and the organization of medieval agriculture. A clear survey of how a nation learned to feed itself across centuries. Understand where our farming habits actually came from.
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88 chapters
- 1A SHORT HISTORY
- 2OF
- 3ENGLISH AGRICULTURE
- 4W.H.R. CURTLER
- 5PREFACE
- 6CONTENTS
- 7LANDMARKS IN ENGLISH AGRICULTURE
- 8CHAPTER I
- 9COMMUNISTIC FARMING.—GROWTH OF THE MANOR.—EARLY PRICES.—THE ORGANIZATION AND AGRICULTURE OF THE MANOR
- 10FOOTNOTES:
- 11CHAPTER II
- 12THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.—THE MANOR AT ITS ZENITH, WITH SEEDS OF DECAY ALREADY VISIBLE.—WALTER OF HENLEY
- 13FOOTNOTES:
- 14CHAPTER III
- 15THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.—DECLINE OF AGRICULTURE.—THE BLACK DEATH.— STATUTE OF LABOURERS
- 16FOOTNOTES:
- 17CHAPTER IV
- 18HOW THE CLASSES CONNECTED WITH THE LAND LIVED IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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