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Agricultural History Review, Volume 51 (2003)

Articles, Part 1
Articles, Part 2
Reviews, Part 1
Della Hooke (ed.), Landscape: the richest historical record (Society for Landscape Studies, Supplementary Series 1, 2000), reviewed by Harold Fox, p. 119
J. G. Minton, Agrarian archives. A thousand years of records (Durham: History of Education Project, 2002), reviewed by Bethanie Afton, p. 120
Catherine Delano-Smith and Roger J. P. Kain, English maps: a history (The British Library, 1999), reviewed by A. D. M. Phillips, p. 120
D. A. Crowley (ed.), The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Wiltshire, XVII, Calne hundred (Boydell and Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2002), reviewed by J. H. Bettey, p. 121
David Hey, Historic Hallamshire. History in Sheffield’s countryside (Ashbourne: Landmark Publishing, 2002), reviewed by Jane Whittle, p. 121
Elizabeth Griffiths (ed.), William Windham’s Green Book, 1673–1688 (Norfolk Record Society, 66, 2002), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 122
John Beckett, Byron and Newstead. The aristocrat and the abbey (Associated University Presses, 2001), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 123
Patrick Polden, Peter Thellusson’s will of 1797 and its consequences on Chancery law (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), reviewed by F. M. L. Thompson, p. 124
Susanna Wade Martins, The English model farm. Building the agricultural ideal, 1700–1914 (Windgather Press, 2002), reviewed by Joan E. Grundy, p. 125
Ian Packer, Lloyd George, Liberalism and the land. The land issue and party politics in England, 1906–1914 (Boydell / The Royal Historical Society, 2001), reviewed by Jeremy Burchardt, p. 126
Nicholas Mansfield, English farmworkers and local patriotism, 1900–1930 (Ashgate, 2001), reviewed by Alun Howkins, p. 127
Diana Wood, Medieval economic thought (CUP, 2002), reviewed by S. H. Rigby, p. 128
José Miguel Martínez Carrión (ed.), El nivel de vida en la España rural: siglos XVIII-XX (Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante, 2002), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 129
Jesús Izquierdo Martín, El rostro de la comunidad. La identidad del campesino en la Castilla del Antiguo Régimen (Consejo Económico y Social, Comunidad de Madrid, 2001), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 130
Karl Ditt, Rita Gudermann and Norwich Rüsse (eds), Agrarmodernisierung und ökologische Folgen: Westfalen vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2001), reviewed by John Perkins, p. 130
William R. Leonard and Michael H. Crawford (eds), Human biology of pastoral populations (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Nancy Howell, p. 132
Peter H. Lindert, Shifting ground. The changing agricultural soils of China and Indonesia (MIT Press, 2000), reviewed by David Pimentel, p. 132
Reviews, Part 2
Peter Fowler, Farming in the first millennium ad: British agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Andrew Fleming, p. 226
Philip Riden (ed.), The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Northampton, V, Cleyley hundred (Boydell and Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2002), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 227
Maryanne Kowaleski (ed.), The havener’s accounts of the earldom and duchy of Cornwall, 1287–1356 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new ser. 44, 2001), reviewed by Bruce M. S. Campbell, p. 228
J. L. Kirby and Janet H. Stevenson (eds), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, XXI, 6 to 10 Henry V (1418–1422) (Boydell / Public Record Office, 2002), reviewed by Bruce M. S. Campbell, p. 229
C. P. Lewis, A history of Kirtling and Upend. Landowners and people in a Cambridgeshire parish, 1000–2000 (Wallasey: Magazine Lane Press for Kirtling and Upend Parish Council, 2000), reviewed by Elizabeth Griffiths, p. 229
Pamela Sharpe, Population and society in an east Devon parish. Reproducing Colyton, 1540–1840 (University of Exeter Press, 2002), reviewed by Nigel Goose, p. 230
Charles F. Foster, Seven households. Life in Cheshire and Lancashire, 1582 to 1774 (Arley Hall Press, 2002), reviewed by Peter Edwards, p. 231
Margaret Spufford, The scope of local history and the potential of the hearth tax returns (British Association for Local History, 2000); Nesta Evans and Susan Rose (eds), Cambridgeshire hearth tax returns, Michaelmas 1664 (British Record Society/Cambridgeshire Records Society, 2001); Duncan Harrington, Sarah Pearson and Susan Rose (eds), Kent hearth tax assessment, Lady Day 1664 (British Record Society/Kent Archaeological Society, 2001), reviewed by Elizabeth Parkinson, p. 232
Rachel Crawford, Poetry, enclosure, and the vernacular landscape, 1700–1830 (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Bridget Keegan, p. 233
Nicola Verdon, Rural women workers in nineteenth-century England. Gender, work and wages (Boydell Press, 2002), reviewed by Jane Humphries, p. 234
Jeremy Burchardt, Paradise lost. Rural idyll and social change since 1800 (I.B. Tauris, 2002), reviewed by Brian Short, p. 235
Patricia Lynch, The Liberal party in rural England, 1885–1910. Radicalism and community (OUP, 2003), reviewed by Paul Readman, p. 236
Heather Holmes, ‘As good as a holiday’. Potato harvesting in the Lothians from 1870 to the present (Tuckwell Press, 2000), reviewed by Alun Howkins, p. 238
Alun Howkins, The death of rural England. A social history of the countryside since 1900 (Routledge, 2003), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 238
Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements. The archaeology of rural communities in north-west Europe, 400–900 (OUP, 2002), reviewed by H. T. Waterbolk, p. 240
Cédric Lavigne, Essai sur la planification agraire au moyen age. Les paysages neufs de la Gascogne médiévale (XIIIe-XIVe siècles) (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2002), reviewed by Elisabeth Zadora-Rio, p. 241
Martina de Moor, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Paul Warde (eds), The management of common land in north-west Europe, c. 1500–1850 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), reviewed by Elinor Ostrom, p. 242
William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians. Brandenburg Junkers and villagers, 1500–1840 (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 242
Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking (eds), Environmental histories of New Zealand (OUP, 2002), reviewed by J. M. Powell, p. 243
William D. Walters Jr., The heart of the cornbelt: an illustrated history of corn farming in McLean County (Bloomington IL: McLean County Historical Society, 1998), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 244
Tom Griffiths, Forests of ash. An environmental history (CUP, 2001), reviewed by Michael Roche, p. 245
Margreet Van Der Burg, ‘Geen tweede boer’. Gender, landbouwmodernisering en onderwijs aan plattelandsvrouwen in Nederland, 1863–1968 (A.A.G. Bijdragen, 41, 2002), reviewed by Hilde Krips Van Der Laan, p. 246
Helene Albers, Zwischen Hof, Haushalt und Familie: Bäuerinnen in Westfalen-Lippe, 1920–1960 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2001), reviewed by John Perkins, p. 246
A. E. Luloff and R. S. Krannich (eds), Persistence and change in rural communities. A fifty-year follow-up to six classic studies (CABI Publishing, 2002), reviewed by Willis Goudy, p. 247
Norman Wirzba (ed.), The art of the commonplace. The agrarian essays of Wendell Berry (Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2002), reviewed by Philip Conford, p. 248

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