Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
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精英女性与农业景观，1700–1830
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2017
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Briony McDonagh
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Briony McDonagh
漫长的18世纪的社会和经济历史在很大程度上忽视了妇女作为土地所有者和改良者的地位。1700年至1830年期间，英格兰中部大片地区的景观被议会圈地和其他一系列新做法重塑--无论是物质上的还是精神上的。在中部地区以外，当地的景观也被改造，以符合时代的改善理想。然而，尽管我们对推动圈地计划和赞助农业改良的男性了解很多，但对女性土地所有者和农民所扮演的角色及其对景观变化的贡献却知之甚少。
《1700-1830年的精英女性与农业景观》一书借鉴了英格兰各地的例子，详细研究了精英女性与地产的关系，特别是她们通过地产管理和改善的透镜进行调解。这本高度原创的书提供了一个明确的女权主义历史地理的18世纪英国农村景观。它解决了有关有产妇女在英国农村社区和格鲁吉亚社会中的作用的重要问题，同时有助于更广泛的文化辩论妇女在英国的环境，社会和经济历史。它会引起那些从事历史和文化地理、社会、经济和文化历史、妇女研究、性别研究和景观研究的人的兴趣。
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.