The English Rural Community : Image and Analysis (Paperback)

1. Images and realities in the English rural community: an introduction Brian Short; 2. The evolution of contrasting communities within rural England Brian Short; 3. English rural communities: structures, regularities, and change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Joan Thirsk; 4. Population movement and migration in pre-industrial rural England Malcom Kitch; 5. The English farm labourer in the nineteenth century: farm, family and community Alun Howkins; 6. Sportive labour: the farmworker in eighteenth-century poetry and painting John Barrell; 7. Images of the rural in popular culture 1750?1990 Stuart Laing; 8. The mystical geography of the English John Lowerson; 9. The rural/urban fringe as battleground Peter Ambrose; 10. Image and analysis: new directions in immunity studies Susan Wright.