Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of

The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed b

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This set of twelve previously unpublished essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas. The essays are divided i