Elite women and the agricultural landscape, 1700-1830 / / Briony McDonagh.

"Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped--both materially and imaginatively--by parliamentary enclosure...

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Superior document:Studies in historical geography
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Routledge,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in historical geography.
Physical Description:1 online resource (203 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • chapter 1 Introduction
  • chapter 2 Women, land and property
  • chapter 3 Managing the estate
  • chapter 4 Improving the estate
  • chapter 5 Country houses, gardens and estate villages
  • chapter 6 Representing women and property
  • chapter 7 Beyond the (park) pale.