Traces the rise and fall of rural England from the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the nature of the changes which have occurred.

G. E. Mingay

Introduction, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 1 Lord and Peasant, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 2 The Progress of the Plough, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 3 In Sickness and in Health: Disease and Famine, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 4 Plenty and Want, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 5 Landed Society and Rural Culture, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 6 The Two Faces of the Countryside, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 7 The Countryside in Decline, 1870-1914, G. E. Mingay; Chapter 8 The Countryside in War and Peace, G. E. Mingay;