03522namaa2200637uu 4500 oapen25060 oapen 20251217011901.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2018a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 1135853758 OCoLC 9781315579078 9781409456025 10.26530/OAPEN_1005034 doi (OCoLC)1135853758 oapen oapen eng dc H thema HB thema HBL thema HBLL thema HBT thema HBTB thema McDonagh, Briony edt Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2018 1 online resource (202 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Historical Geography Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped - both materially and imaginatively - by parliamentary enclosure and a bundle of other new practices. Outside the Midlands too, local landscapes were remodelled in line with the improving ideals of the era. Yet while we know a great deal about the men who pushed forward schemes for enclosure and sponsored agricultural improvement, far less is known about the role played by female landowners and farmers and their contributions to landscape change. Drawing on examples from across Georgian England, Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 offers a detailed study of elite women's relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women's role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women's place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng History: earliest times to present day thema History: specific events & topics thema History. bicssc History thema Humanities thema Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900. bicssc Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 thema Social & cultural history. bicssc Social & cultural history thema eighteenth century estates History landscape property women McDonagh, Briony aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25060 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37753 37753