Jeremy Burchardt.

Jeremy Burchardt. Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change since 1800 fresh York: I. B. Tauris; dist. by means of Palgrave, New York. 2002. PP vi, 238 $2750 ISBN 1-86064-514-3

This main division certainly finds a niche. We have had for a certain number of time textbook overviews of the history of the countryside in recent England by distinguished historians and sociologists: Howard Newby's undecayed and Pleasant Land (1979) Oliver Rackham's The History of the Countryside (1986) and, chiefly recently, Alun Howkins' The Death of Rural England (2003) We have also had stimulating theses about the idea of the

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