- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: I.B.Tauris; illustrated edition edition (26 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1860649394
- ISBN-13: 978-1860649394
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,095,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...questions the romantic notions of the utopian pastoral past while telling the history of "village England" from earliest times until the present." -History Today; Landscape Research, 30:1, 2005). Review by Peter Howard: 'Wild's welcome and well-written book... Wild displays a very sharp eye for the social causes of recent changes in design... The emphasis on social history does relate many of the changes, some of them very well known, to legal and economic changes, so sections on the effect of the game laws, or the rise of gentrification, are particularly well handled.' 'Interesting, enlightening and easily understandable work for the general reader... A splendid book that this reviewer enjoyed enormously'.- Landscape History
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The romantic imagery of village England and the prominence that this commands in English cultural identity is well known. Yet just how accurate is this notion of the rural idyll in which the organic nature of village life was gradually undermined, and destroyed, by social and economic factors? Trevor Wild's text explores the evolution of "village England" from the earliest times to the present. Drawing upon both contemporary accounts and scholarship, he provides and engaging and revealing account of the major transformation affecting the English village. Of particular interest is the book's coverage of the more recent past, with the whittling away of the great estates, the appearance of such institutions as the village hall and the development of alternative systems of power such as the councils.
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It was once widely believed that the majority of English villages were first established by waves of German colonists - Saxons and Angles - in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries and that these were supplemented in much of eastern England by a later phase of village foundation with the arrival of Danish settlers in the ninth and tenth centuries. Read the first page
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It was once widely believed that the majority of English villages were first established by waves of German colonists - Saxons and Angles - in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries and that these were supplemented in much of eastern England by a later phase of village foundation with the arrival of Danish settlers in the ninth and tenth centuries. Read the first page
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