GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wage Labour, Highland Clearances
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To consider how the privaizaion of common lands and the assault on custom in rural 18 th. Enclosure: a legal process by which landed interests expropriated formerly common lands and converted them to private lands, fenced and developed for commercial agriculture. Commons: lands held in common by rural peoples, which provided addiional resources to the family economy. Commons might include: open ields, woodlands, or marshes. Maps show evolving nature of the village, open ield village system. Landscape traces: an open ield sill farmed in strips by local farmers. New transportaion infrastructures: turnpike roads, canals, and sea-based commerce, speeding up transport methods, english context especially, speeding up process of trade from coastal locaions to inner-land locaions, signiicance: Agricultural improvement: a movement amongst the landed classes to improve yields, promotes changes in agricultural techniques. New crop mixtures, systems of rotaion and ferilizers. Enclosure: legal process required landowners to apply to parliament to enclose commons on their land, uneven applicaion across england:
