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Farming to halvesthe hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Farming to halvesElizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton.
Reminder of title:	the hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times /
Author:	Griffiths, Elizabeth.
other author:	Overton, Mark.
Published:	Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	ix, 263 p. :ill. ;23 cm.
Subject:	SharecroppingHistory.England
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230240827

Farming to halvesthe hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times /
Griffiths, Elizabeth.

Farming to halvesthe hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times /[electronic resource] :Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton. - Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - ix, 263 p. :ill. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index.

Sharefarming in England: Theory and Practice -- Sharefarming Before 1500: a Hidden Practice -- Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence -- Seventeenth-Century Case Studies: Farming toHalves on Four Norfolk Estates -- Sharefarming Disappears from the Documents in the Eighteenth Century -- Profit Sharing and Land Reform in the Nineteenth Century -- A Return to Halves in the Twentieth Century -- Sharefarming at the Turn of the 21st Century.

Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land common in Europe and the New World, but thought not to have existed in England. Indeed Arthur Young claimed itwas the point ofdifference between English and French agriculture, which explained thesuccess of the former and failure of the latter. However, Young was mistaken: forms of sharefarming existed in all periods, at every level ofsociety and across the length and breadth of the country. This discoveryentirely alters our perceptions of English rural communities, the development of English agriculture and the relationships between landlords and tenants, and farmers in general. Sharefarming English style differed from that in Europe because it remained largely informal and rarelyappears in documents. Even when it does appear, historians, misled by Arthur Young perhaps, have failed to recognize its significance. In this way, a stratum of farming life and activity has been lost. This book recovers that hidden history with far reaching and unexpected implications for our understanding of English rural life both in the past and present.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230240827

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230240827doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

460734
Sharecropping
--History.--EnglandIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD1478.G7 / G75 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 333.3355630942

National Agricultural Library Call No.: HD1478.G7 / G75 2009

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