Assembling Enclosure: Transformations in the Rural Landscape of Post-Medieval North-East England

by Ronan O'Donnell

Overview

The landscape history of North-East England has not been studied as much as other parts of the country. This book begins to fill this gap by utilizing Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to re-assess the familiar topics of enclosure and improvement. It reveals the contribution of local 'actors' – including landowners, tenants and the landscape itself – to these 'processes'. In so doing it transforms our understanding of the way in which the landscape of Northumberland was created during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and carries wider implications for how we might approach enclosure in other parts of the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909291430
Publisher:	University of Hertfordshire Press
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Series:	Explorations in Local and Regional Histo
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.75(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Ronan O'Donnell has a doctorate from the University of Durham, having gained a BSc in Archaeology from Durham and an MA in English Local History from the University of Leicester. His interests focus on the relationship between global and local process and the implications of changes to systems of land tenure.

Table of Contents

List of figures vi

Abbreviations viii

Acknowledgments ix

Series editors' preface xi

1 Explaining enclosure and improvement 1

2 Abolishing common rights 21

3 Consolidating farms 33

4 Rearranging the landscape 45

5 Dispersing settlement 66

6 Adopting new technology and methods 83

7 Actors and mediation 113

8 Conclusions 135

Bibliography 141

Index 147