The English Rural Community: Image and Analysis

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Brian Short
CUP Archive, Jun 4, 1992 - History - 239 pages
This book examines the English rural community, past and present, in its variety and dynamism. The distinguished team of contributors brings a variety of disciplinary perspectives to bear upon the central issues of movement and migration; the farm family and rural labour force; the development of contrasting rural communities; the portrayal of rural labour in both 'high' and popular culture; the changing nature of religious practice in the English countryside; the rural/urban fringe, and the spread of notions of a rural English arcadia within a predominantly urban society. Fully illustrated with accompanying maps, paintings and photographs, The English Rural Community provides an important and innovative overview of a subject where history, myth and debate are inseparably entwined. A full bibliography will assist a broad range of general readers and students of social history, historical geography and development studies approaching the subject for the first time, and the whole should establish itself as the central analytical account in an area where image and reality are notoriously hard to unravel.
 

Contents

structures regularities
44
Population movement and migration in preindustrial
62
the farmworker in eighteenthcentury
105
Images of the rural in popular culture 17501990
133
The mystical geography of the English
152
The ruralurban fringe as battleground
175
new directions in community studies
195
Consolidated bibliography
218
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