Village England
eBook - PDF

Village England

A Social History of the Countryside

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Village England

A Social History of the Countryside

About this book

The romantic imagery of village England and the prominence that this commands in English cultural identity is well known. Yet just how accurate is this notion of the rural idyll in which the organic nature of village life was gradually undermined, and destroyed, by social and economic factors? Trevor Wild's text explores the evolution of "village England" from the earliest times to the present. Drawing upon both contemporary accounts and scholarship, he provides an engaging and revealing account of the major transformations affecting the English village. Of particular interest is the book's coverage of the more recent past, with the whittling away of the great estates, the appearance of such institutions as the village hall, and the development of alternative systems of power such as the councils.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9781860649394
eBook ISBN
9780857717764
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyrights
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Plates
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface and Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. One Origins, Organic Quality and Geographical Context
  12. Two The First Transformation: Village England and the Parliamentary Enclosures
  13. Three Villages of Poverty and Rioting: Rural England in the Bleak Age
  14. Four High Farming and the ‘Ordered’ Rural Society
  15. Five Villages in Decay: Rural England in the Agricultural Depression
  16. Six Village England in the Inter-War Years
  17. Seven The Second Transformation: Village England in the Post-War Era
  18. Epilogue
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index