Farm Production in England 1700-1914

by Turner, M. E.; Beckett, J. V.; Afton, B.

• ISBN13: 9780198208044
• ISBN10: 0198208049
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first major study of English agriculture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be based on the records of the farmer. Bringing together a range of qualitative and quantitative data found in accounts, memoranda books, and diaries, the authors throw important new light on the way farmers worked and what they produced.

Author Biography

B. Afton is a Research Fellow at the University of Hull and Special Lecturer at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
List of Tables	x
Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(8)
Agricultural Production, Output, and Productivity, 1700--1914	9	(18)
The Farmers and their Records	27	(39)
Farming Practice and Techniques	66	(50)
The Wheat Question	116	(34)
Barley and Oats	150	(23)
Livestock	173	(37)
Farm Production and the Agricultural Revolution	210	(21)
Appendix 1. Farm Records, 1700--1914	231	(14)
Appendix 2. Measurement and Weighting Problems in Farm Records	245	(3)
Bibliography	248	(21)
Index	269