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Farming to Halves

The Hidden History of Sharefarming in England from Medieval to Modern Times

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  • © 2009

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  1. Elizabeth Griffiths

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Mark Overton

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 1-9

  3. Sharefarming in England: Theory and Practice

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 10-20

  4. Sharefarming before 1500: A Hidden Practice

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 21-43

  5. Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 44-55

  6. Seventeenth-Century Case Studies: Farming to Halves on Four Norfolk Estates

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 56-110

  7. Sharefarming Disappears from the Documents in the Eighteenth Century

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 111-131

  8. Profit-sharing and Land Reform in the Nineteenth Century

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 132-155

  9. A Return to Halves in the Twentieth Century

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 156-179

  10. Sharefarming at the Turn of the 21st Century

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 180-193

  11. Conclusions

    • Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton
    Pages 194-200

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-263
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About this book

Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land 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.

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'Most refreshing and instructive, this book is quite special in drawing together past history with present-day discussions about agricultural policy. A most original book, historical at the outset but not confined to the historical past.' - Joan Thirsk, author of Alternative Agriculture. A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day

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  • University of Exeter, UK

    Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Overton

About the authors

ELIZABETH GRIFFITHS  spent four years sharefarming in New Zealand, before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1987. From 2003 to 2005 she worked with Dr Jane Whittle at Exeter on the household accounts of Lady Alice Le Strange, and then persuaded Prof. Mark Overton of the need for a research project on sharefarming in England. This book is the result.

MARK OVERTON is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely on the economic and social history of early modern England, and on agrarian history, including Agricultural Revolution in England: the Transformation of the Agrarian Economy, 1500-1800.

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