Farming to halves: the hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times

Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of lettingland familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development. INDICE: Preface - Introduction - Sharefarming in England: Theory and Practice - Sharefarming Before 1500: a Hidden Practice - Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence - Seventeenth-Century Case Studies: Farming to Halveson Four Norfolk Estates - Sharefarming Disappears from the Documents in the Eighteenth Century - Profit Sharing and Land Reform in the Nineteenth Century -A Return to Halves in the Twentieth Century - Sharefarming at the Turn of the21st Century - Conclusions - Appendix I: A Survey of Sharefarming and its Variants in England - Appendix II: Letting to Halves at East and West Rudham in 1693 - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-20223-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés