1st Edition

Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951

By John Saville Copyright 1957
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1998. This book aims to accommodate for the little attention paid to the needs of the people living in rural Britain. The author argues that there has hardly been an attempt to describe the impact of new machines and of new wage-levels on farm and village. The title sets out to answer two key questions: can the traditional pattern of settlement survive, and has depopulation in... Read more
Chapter 1 The Historical Background; Chapter 2 Internal Migration and Rural Depopulation; Chapter 3 Migration Differentials; Chapter 4 Some Aspects of the Contemporary Problem; Chapter 5 A Study of the South Hams;

Biography

John Saville