Agricultural History Review, Volume 57 (2009)

Articles, Part 1

Mark Bailey, The form, function and evolution of irregular field systems in Suffolk, c.1300 to c.1550, pp. 15–36

Muir Johnstone, Farm rents and improvement: East Lothian and Lanarkshire, 1670-1830, pp. 37–57

Joseph Bettey, George Boswell of Puddletown (1735-1815): progressive farmer and author, pp. 58–69

Nicholas Woodward, Horse-stealing in Wales, 1730-1830, pp. 70–108

Review article:

Jan Luiten van Zanden, Simply a better class of people? The Clark thesis assessed, pp. 124–129

Articles, Part 2

Mark Gardiner, Dales, long lands, and the medieval division of land in eastern England, pp. 1–14

Timothy P. Newfield, A cattle panzootic in early fourteenth-century Europe, pp. 155–190

Briony A. K. McDonagh, Subverting the ground: private property and public protest in the sixteenth-century Yorkshire Wolds, pp. 191–206

Dana G. Dalrymple, The Smithsonian Bequest, Congress, and nineteenth-century efforts to increase and diffuse agricultural knowledge in the United States, pp. 207–235

Yves Segers and Roeland Hermans, Between ideology and science: higher agricultural education in Belgium and the development of a Catholic agricultural network, 1850-1914, pp. 236–256

Alun Howkins and Nicola Verdon, The state and the farm worker: the evolution of the minimum wage in agriculture in England and Wales, 1909-24, pp. 257–274

Reviews, Part 1

Edward Martin and Max Satchell, ‘Wheare most inclosures be’. East Anglian fields: History, morphology and management (East Anglian Archaeology, 124, Suffolk County Council, 2008), reviewed by Mark Bailey, p. 130

B. K. Roberts, Landscapes, documents and maps. Villages in northern England and beyond, ad 900–1250 (Oxbow Books, 2008), reviewed by Stephen Rippon, p. 131

Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell (eds), Agriculture and rural society after the Black Death. Common themes and regional variations (Studies in Regional and Local History 6, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008), reviewed by Margaret Yates, p. 132

C. Dyer, P. Coss and C. Wickham (eds), Rodney Hilton’s Middle Ages. An exploration of historical themes (Past and Present Suppl., 2, 2007), reviewed by Ben Dodds, p. 133

Deborah Youngs, Humphrey Newton (1466–1536). An early Tudor gentleman (The Boydell Press, 2008), reviewed by A. J. Pollard, p. 134

W. G. Hoskins, The Midland Peasant. Economic and social history of a Leicestershire village (Chichester: Phillimore, 2008), reviewed by Joan Thirsk, p. 135

Jennifer Munroe (ed.), Making gardens of their own: advice for women, 1550–1750 (Essential works for the study of early modern women, series III, part three, volume 1, Ashgate, 2008); Jennifer Munroe, Gender and the garden in early modern English literature (Ashgate, 2008), reviewed by Joan Thirsk, p. 135

Yorkshire West Riding Hearth Tax assessment, Lady Day 1672, ed., David Hey, Colum Giles, Margaret Spufford and Andrew Wareham (British Record Society, Index Library 121, Hearth Tax ser. 5, 2007), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 136

Larry Patriquin, Agrarian capitalism and poor relief in England, 1500–1860. Rethinking the origins of the welfare state (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), reviewed by A. J. Gritt, p. 137

Peter Razzell, Population and disease: transforming English society, 1550–1850 (Caliban Books, 2007), reviewed by Robert Lee, p. 140

Avis R. Wilson, Forgotten labour. The Wiltshire agricultural worker and his environment, 4500 bc–ad 1950 (Hobnob Press, 2008), reviewed by Joseph Bettey, p. 141

Martin Bodman, Devon leather. An outline history of a lost industry: nineteenth-century tanners and tanneries (Leat Press, 2008), reviewed by Mike Bone, p. 142

Jonathan Brown, Steam on the farm. A history of agricultural steam engines, 1850 to 1950 (The Crowood Press, 2008), reviewed by Peter Dewey, p. 142

P. Bartrip, Myxomatosis. A history of pest control and the rabbit (Taurus Academic Studies, 2008), reviewed by John Martin, p. 143

I. Roberts, Telling tales out of school. A history of education and school life in North Tyneside and Redesdale from 1870 to 1944 (Northern Heritage Publishing, 2008), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 144

Paul Readman, Land and nation in England. Patriotism, national identity and the politics of land, 1880–1914 (Royal Historical Society, Studies in History, new ser., 64, Boydell, 2008), reviewed by Mark Rothery, p. 145

Andrew G. Newby, Ireland, Radicalism and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870–1912 (Scottish Historical Monographs, 15, Edinburgh University Press, 2007), reviewed by Malcolm Bangor-Jones, p. 146

Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson, A history of Irish farming, 1750–1950 (Four Courts Press, 2008), reviewed by Michael Turner, p. 147

S. Sheehan, Jack’s world: Farming on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, 1920–2003 (Cork University Press, 2007), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 148

Jeremy Hayhoe, Enlightened feudalism. Seigneurial justice and village society in eighteenth-century northern Burgundy (University of Rochester Press, 2008), reviewed by Drew Gray, p. 149

Jan Bieleman, Boeren in Nederland. Geschiedenis van de Landbouw, 1500–2000 (Boom, 2008), reviewed by Maarten Prak, p. 150

De l’estime au cadastre en Europe. Les systèmes cadastraux aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Colloque des 20 et 21 janvier 2005 sous la direction scientifique de Florence Bourillon, Pierre Clergeot et Nadine Vivier (Comité pour L’histoire Économique et Financière de la France, 2008), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 151

Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds), Rachel Carson: legacy and challenge (State University of New York Press, 2008), reviewed by Erin Gill, p. 152

Reviews, Part 2

Chris Briggs, Credit and village society in fourteenth-century England (Oxford University Press, 2009), reviewed by Margaret Yates, p. 275

P. L. Larson, Conflict and compromise in the late medieval countryside. Lords and peasants in Durham, 1349–1400 (Routledge, 2006), reviewed by Miriam Müller, p. 276

Anne Rowe, Medieval parks of Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire Publications for University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008). xiv + 255 pp., 55 figs. £18.99; hugh prince, Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 (Hertfordshire Publications for University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009); Hugh Prince, Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 (Hertfordshire Publications for University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009), reviewed by Oliver Creighton, p. 277

David Johnson, Ingleborough: landscape and history (Carnegie Publishing, 2008), reviewed by Alasdair Ross, p. 277

Mark Bowden, Graham Brown and Nicky Smith, An archaeology of town commons in England: ‘a very fair field indeed’ (English Heritage, 2009), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 278

Daniel C. Beaver, Hunting and the politics of violence before the English Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2008), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 279

Elizabeth Parkinson, The establishment of the Hearth Tax, 1662–66 (List and Index Society, Special Series, 43, 2008), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 281

Donna Landry, Noble brutes. How eastern horses transformed English culture (The John Hopkins University Press, 2009), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 282

Robin Stanes, Andrew Jewell and Richard Bass, The husbandry of Devon and Cornwall (Stanes, 2008), reviewed by Michael Havinden, p. 283

Geoffrey Ball, Land, agriculture and industry in north-west Essex. Spotlights on a land remembered (Saffron Walden Historical Society, 2009), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 284

William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical directory of British wealth-holders. Volume One, 1809–1839 (The Social Affairs Unit, 2009), reviewed by Kevin Cahill, p. 285

David Neave and Susan Neave, A history of the County of York: East Riding VIII, East Buckrose: Sledmere and the northern Wolds (The Victoria History of the Counties of England, Boydell Press, 2008), reviewed by Briony A. K. McDonagh, p. 285

Henry Buckton, The lost villages. In search of Britain’s vanished communities (I.B.Tauris, 2008), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 286

S. Antrobus, We wouldn’t have missed it for the world’. The Women’s Land Army in Bedfordshire, 1939–1950 (Book Castle Publishing, 2008), reviewed by John Martin, p. 287

Gill Clarke, The Women’s Land Army: a portrait (Sansom & Company, 2008), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 288

C. James and J. A. Fitzgerald (eds), Of the land and the spirit. The essential Lord Northbourne on ecology and religion (World Wisdom, 2008), reviewed by Erin Gill, p. 288

Mary Young with Abernyte Heritage Group, Abernyte. The Quiet Revolution (Abernyte Heritage Group, 2008), reviewed by Heather Holmes, p. 290

Toby Barnard, Improving Ireland? Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786 (Four Courts Press, 2008), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 290

T. Dooley, The murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Agrarian crime and punishment in pre-famine Ireland (Four Courts, 2007), reviewed by Carl J. Griffin, p. 291

Scott M. Eddie, Landownership in eastern Germany before the Great War. A quantitative analysis (Oxford University Press, 2008), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 292

Elizabeth B. Jones, Gender and rural modernity. Farm women and the politics of labor in Germany, 1871–1933 (Ashgate, 2009), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 293

C. Barciela, ‘Ni un español sin pan’ La red nacional de silos y graneros (Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, 2007), reviewed by Tim Rees, p. 294

P. Lains and V. Pinilla (eds), Agriculture and economic development in Europe since 1870 (Routledge, 2009), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 295

Shuzo Teruoka (ed.), Agriculture in the modernization of Japan, 1850–2000 (Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2008), reviewed by Alan Booth, p. 296

William Lockeretz (ed.), Organic farming: an international history (CABI, 2007), reviewed by Erin Gill, p. 297

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