Foreword by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. Plates. Maps. Preface by the Author. 1. Historical Origins of the British Landscape 2. People: Number and Movement 3. Some Social and Economic Consequences of Migration 4. Work in the Countryside 5. Mobility: Ancient and Modern 6. Rural Local Government 7. Reorganisation of Local Government 8. Land-use Planning 9. Rural Communities 10. Cleaning up the Countryside: Dereliction, Reclamation and Litter 11. Water: Provision and Conservation 12. Water for Recreation 13. Common Land 14. Forests: Access and Amenity 15. Conservation 16. Leisure: Amenity, Recreation and the Countryside. Further Reading. Index.
Biography
Howard E. Bracey (1905 –1996) had an international reputation as a rural sociologist, from his work with the European Society for Rural Sociology and the International Committee for Cooperation in Rural Sociology. He was English editor of the European journal Sociologia Ruralis for a number of years and his published works include Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire (1952), English Rural Life (1959), Industry and the Countryside (1963), Neighbours (1964) and In Retirement (1966). At the time of original publication Dr Bracey was a Research Fellow in Rural Sociology with the status of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol.
