Description:
During the eighteenth century, England's landowners played a vital role in the growth of the national economy. First published in 1989, Town and Countryside draws together important research on the ways in which both urban and rural landed classes promoted this growth in industry, commerce, and agriculture.
Review Quotes:
Reviews of the first publication:
'... this is an admirable and most welcome volume... it undoubtedly adds to the density and richness of our knowledge of the role of the landowner in the English economy between 1660 and 1860.'
-- Angus Mcinnes, Agricultural History Review, Volume 42
'... this is an interesting and stimulating collection of studies by able scholar, '
-- Philip Jenkins, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1