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The Harvest of the Hills
Angus J. L. Winchester
其他書名
Rural Life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders, 1400-1700
出版
Edinburgh University Press
, 2000
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Nature / Ecology
Nature / Natural Resources
Science / Earth Sciences / General
Science / Environmental Science
Science / History
Social Science / Human Geography
Social Science / Sociology / Rural
ISBN
1853312398
9781853312397
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AmNnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This illustrated environmental history of rural life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders in the late medieval and early modern periods explores the relationship between society and the environment - the ways in which humans responded to and used the environment in which they lived.The author uses the orders and byelaws made by manorial courts to build up a picture of how pastoral society in the Pennine, Lake District and Border hills husbanded the resources of the uplands. It offers an upland, pastoral paradigm of land use, the management of common land, and the transition from medieval to early-modern farming systems to balance the extensive literature on the agrarian history of the lowlands.The geographical scope of the book includes the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, the Border hills, the North Pennines and the Forest of Bowland. Through a lively text and carefully selected illustrations the author captures the distinctive local culture of traditional pastoral communities in these much visited areas of Britain.