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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      22 August 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139854856
      9781108062480
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139854856
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 524 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History 1066-1450, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History 1066-1450, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    The author and politician Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851–1937), an expert on British agricultural history, held the post of President of the Board of Agriculture in David Lloyd George's cabinet between 1916 and 1919. In 1885 he had written an article for the Quarterly Review in which he traced the progress of English agriculture since the middle ages. This was expanded into a book, published in 1888 as The Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. Then, in 1912, Prothero revised and greatly expanded it under its current title, bringing the story up to date. This classic work charts the development of farming from the medieval manorial system up to the Corn Laws in the nineteenth century and the agricultural crises that confronted administrators at the beginning of the twentieth. The appendices include a chronological list of agricultural writers as well as data on the Corn Laws, tithes, acreage and wages.

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