God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660.

R. B. Outhwaite, Andrew McRae

The Economic History Review · 1996 · 208 citations · 0 references

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Introduction Part I. Versions of Moral Economy: 1. Covetousness in the countryside: agrarian complaint and mid-Tudor reform 2. Moral economics and the Tudor-Stuart Church 3. The rural vision of Renaissance satire 4. Agrarian communism Part II. Imperatives of Improvement: 5. Husbandry manuals and agrarian improvement 6. 'To know one's own': the discourse of the estate surveyor 7. Georgic economics Part III. The Profits and Pleasures of the Land: 8. Chorography: the view from the gentleman's seat 9. Rural poetics Bibliography.