Agricultural History Review, Volume 54 (2006)

Articles, Part 1

Christine Grainge, Assarting and the dynamics of Rhineland economies in the ninth century: Scarae at Werden, Weissenburg and Prüm Abbeys, pp. 1–23

Margaret Yates, Between fact and fiction: Henry Brinklow's Complaynt against rapacious landlords, pp. 24–44

Heather Holmes, The circulation of Scottish agricultural books during the eighteenth century, pp. 45–78

Donna J. Ulyatt, Female agricultural labour on the Dixon Estate, Lincolnshire, 1801-17, pp. 79–92

June A. Sheppard, Agricultural workers in mid nineteenth-century Brighton, pp. 93–104

Anne Meredith, From ideals to reality: The women's smallholding colony at Lingfield, 1920-39, pp. 105–121

Vicente Pinilla, The development of irrigated agriculture in twentieth-century Spain: a case study of the Ebro basin, pp. 122–141

Articles, Part 2

John Hare, The Bishop and the Prior: demesne agriculture in medieval Hampshire, pp. 187–212

Alasdair Ross, Scottish environmental history and the (mis)use of Soums, pp. 213–228

John Goodridge, The case of John Dyer's fat-tailed sheep and their tail-trolleys: 'a thing to some scarce credible', pp. 229–239

Ian Whyte, Parliamentary enclosure and changes in landownership in an upland environment: Westmorland, c.1770-1860, pp. 240–256

Fernando Collantes, Farewell to the peasant republic: marginal rural communities and European industrialisation, 1815-1990, pp. 257–273

Nigel Goose, Farm service, seasonal unemployment and casual labour in mid nineteenth-century England, pp. 274–303

Susanna Wade Martins, Smallholdings in Norfolk, 1890-1950: a social and farming experiment, pp. 304–330

R. J. Moore-Colyer, Children's labour in the countryside during World War II, pp. 331–334

Reviews, Part 1

David Stone, Decision-making in medieval agriculture (OUP, 2005), reviewed by Bruce M. S. Campbell, p. 158

James Bond, Monastic landscapes (Tempus Publishing, 2004), reviewed by Janet Burton, p. 159

Amanda Richardson, The forest, park and palace of Clarendon, c. 1200–c. 1650. Reconstructing an actual, conceptual and documented Wiltshire landscape (British Archaeological Reports, British Series 387, 2005), reviewed by Oliver Rackham, p. 160

Christian D. Liddy and Richard H. Britnell (eds), North-east England in the later middle ages (Boydell Press, 2005), reviewed by Christopher Dyer, p. 161

Christopher Dyer, An age of transition? Economy and society in England in the later middle ages (OUP, 2005), reviewed by Margaret Yates, p. 162

John S. Lee, Cambridge and its economic region, 1450–1560 (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005), reviewed by Christopher Dyer, p. 163

Michael A. Faraday (ed.), Worcestershire taxes in the 1520s. The military survey and forced loans of 1522–3 and the lay subsidy of 1524–7 (Worcestershire Historical Society, New Series 19, 2003), reviewed by John S. Moore, p. 164

T. C. Smout, Alan R. Macdonald and Fiona Watson, A history of the native woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920 (Edinburgh UP, 2004), reviewed by Oliver Rackham, p. 164

John Barnatt and Tom Williamson, Chatsworth. A landscape history (Windgather Press, 2005), reviewed by David Hey, p. 166

A. J. Gritt and J. M. Virgoe with C. P. Brownrigg (eds), The memoranda books of Basil Thomas Eccleston, 1757–1789 (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 139 for 2001, 2004), reviewed by Michael Winstanley, p. 166

Stephen Randolph Gibbons, Captain Rock, night errant. The threatening letters of pre-famine Ireland, 1801–1845 (Four Courts Press, 2004), reviewed by Christine Kinealy, p. 167

Philip Heath (ed.), Melbourne, 1820–1875. A diary of John Joseph Briggs (Melbourne Historical Research Group in association with South Derbyshire District Council, 2005), reviewed by Roger T. Dalton, p. 168

Michael Freeman, Victorians and the prehistoric. Tracks to a lost world (Yale UP, 2004), reviewed by Peter J. Bowler, p. 168

Keith Grieves, Nick Mansfield, George Sheeran, Winifred Stokes, Melanie Tebbutt, Andrew Walker and John Walton, Rural and urban encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: regional perspectives (CORAL, 2004), reviewed by Peter Dewey, p. 169

Abigail Woods, A manufactured plague? The history of foot and mouth disease in Britain (Earthscan, 2004), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 170

Jonathan Bell, Ulster farming families, 1930–1960 (Ulster Historical Foundation in association with the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 2005), reviewed by K. J. James, p. 171

Colin Pearse, The whitefaced drift of Dartmoor’s ‘prapper’ sheep: commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Whitefaced Dartmoor Sheep Breeders’ Association (The Author, 2004), reviewed by Jonathan Brown, p. 172

Michael Clayton, Endangered species. Foxhunting – the history, the passion and the fight for survival (Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 2004), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 173

Lawrence Garner, Dry stone walls (Shire, Second edition, 2005); Tom Williamson, The archaeology of rabbit warrens (Shire, 2006), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 173

Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk coast and heaths (Windgather Press, 2005), reviewed by Elizabeth Griffiths, p. 175

Robin Stanes, Old farming days. Life on the land in Devon and Cornwall (Tiverton: Halsgrove, 2005), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 175

Richard W. Unger, Beer in the middle ages and the renaissance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), reviewed by William H. Tebrake, p. 176

Viljo Rasila, Eino Jutikkala and Anneli Mäkelä-Alitalo (eds), Suomen maatalouden historia, I, Perinteisen maatalouden aika, Esihistoriasta vuoteen 1870 (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura / Finnish Literature Society, 2003), reviewed by W. R. Mead, p. 177

Jean-Marc Moriceau, Histoire et géographie de l’élevage français du moyen âge à la révolution (Fayard, 2005), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 178

Gérard Béaur, Christian Dessureault and Joseph Goy (eds), Familles, terre, marchés. Logiques économiques et stratégies dans les milieux ruraux (XVIIe–XXe siècles). Actes du colloque France-Québec- Suisse, Paris, novembre 2002 (Presses Universitiares de Rennes, 2004), reviewed by George Grantham, p. 180

John McKendrick Hughes (ed. John R. Hughes, The unwanted. Great War letters from the field (University of Alberta Press, 2005), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 180

Jonathan Harwood, Technology’s dilemma. Agricultural colleges between science and practice in Germany, 1860–1934 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 181

Fernando Collantes Gutiérrez, El declive demográfico de la montaña española (1850–2000) ¿una drama rural? (Madrid: Centro de Publicaciones, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, 2004), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 182

Giovanni Federico, Feeding the world. An economic history of agriculture, 1800–2000 (Princeton UP, 2005), reviewed by Cormac Ó Gráda, p. 183

Reviews, Part 2

P. H. W. Booth (ed.), Accounts of the manor and hundred of Macclesfield, Cheshire, Michaelmas 1361 to Michaelmas 1362 (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 138, 2003), reviewed by Phillipp R. Schofield, p. 344

John Langdon, Mills in the medieval economy. England, 1300–1540 (OUP, 2004), reviewed by Richard Holt, p. 344

R. W. Dunning (ed.), The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Somerset, VIII, The Poldens and the Levels (Boydell and Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2004), reviewed by James Bond, p. 345

Sylvia Pinches, Maggie Whalley and Dave Postles (eds), The market place and the place of the market (Friends of the Centre for English Local History, Friends’ Paper 9, 2004), reviewed by Neil Howlett, p. 346

Ian D. Whyte and Angus J. L. Winchester (eds), Society, landscape and environment in upland Britain (Society for Landscape Studies, 2004), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 347

Joseph Bettey (ed.), Wiltshire farming in the seventeenth century (Wiltshire Record Society, 57, 2005), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 348

Dorian Gerhold, Carriers and coachmasters. Trade and travel before the turnpikes (Phillimore, 2005), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 349

Marie-Louise Legg (ed.), The Diary of Nicholas Peacock, 1740–1751. The worlds of a County Limerick farmer and agent (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 350

W. P. Griffith, Power, politics and county government in Wales. Anglesey, 1780–1914 (Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 2006), reviewed by Matthew Cragoe, p. 351

Michael Holland (ed.), Swing unmasked. The agricultural riots of 1830 to 1832 and their wider implications (FACHRS Publications, 2005), reviewed by Barry Reay, p. 352

Nigel E. Agar, Behind the plough. Agrarian society in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2005), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 353

Mark Freeman (ed.), The English rural poor, 1850–1914 (Pickering and Chatto, 2005), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 353

Keir Waddington, The bovine scourge. Meat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850–1914 (Boydell Press, 2006), reviewed by Richard Perren, p. 354

Jonathan Brown, Farming in Lincolnshire, 1850–1945 (History of Lincolnshire Committee, 2005), reviewed by Charles Rawding, p. 355

Jacques M. Chevalier and W. Andrés Sánchez Bain, The hot and the cold. Ills of humans and maize in native Mexico (University of Toronto Press, 2003), reviewed by Sheila Cosminsky, p. 356

William D. Godsey Jr., Nobles and nation in central Europe. Free imperial knights in the age of revolution, 1750–1850 (CUP, 2004), reviewed by Matthew Levinger, p. 358

Oliver Marshall, English, Irish and Irish-American pioneer settlers in nineteenth-century Brazil (Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2005), reviewed by J. H. Galloway, p. 359

Enric Saguer (ed.), Els últims hereus. Història oral dels proprietaris gironins, 1930–2000 (Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2005), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 360

Stephen B. Brush, Farmers’ bounty. Locating crop diversity in the contemporary world (Yale UP, 2004), reviewed by Douglas Gollin, p. 360

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