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Drawing upon both contemporary accounts and scholarship, he provides and engaging and revealing account of the major transformation affecting the English village. Of particular interest is the book's coverage of the more recent past, with the whittling away of the great estates, the appearance of such institutions as the village hall and the development of alternative systems of power such as the councils.

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...questions the romantic notions of the utopian pastoral past while telling the history of village England from earliest times until the present. -History Today; Landscape Research, 30:1, 2005). Review by Peter Howard: 'Wild's welcome and well-written book... Wild displays a very sharp eye for the social causes of recent changes in design... The emphasis on social history does relate many of the changes, some of them very well known, to legal and economic changes, so sections on the effect of the game laws, or the rise of gentrification, are particularly well handled.' 'Interesting, enlightening and easily understandable work for the general reader... A splendid book that this reviewer enjoyed enormously'.- Landscape History

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Trevor Wild is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Hull, where he was Senior Lecturer in Geography before his retirement.

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