‘ERE Agricultural History Review edited by J ACHARTRES and A DM PHILLIPS Volume 40 PUBLISHED BY THE BRITISH AGRICULTURAL HISTORY SORA TY CONTENTS Volume 40 Rural Land-use in the Metropolitan Hinterland, 1270— Bruce M S Campbell, 1339: the Evidence of Inquisitiones Post Mortem James A Galloway, and Margaret Murphy Rental Policy on the Estates of the English Peerage 1649-60 Ian Ward Output and Prices in UK Agriculture, 1867-1914, and the Great Agricultural Depression Reconsidered Michael Turner ‘Bab’ye Khozyaystvo’: Poultry-keeping and its Contribution to Peasant Income in pre-1914 Russia Stuart Thompstone ‘The Spade Might Soon Determine It’: the Representation of Deserted Medieval Villages on Ordnance Survey Plans, 1849-1910 Maurice Beresford Annual List and Brief Review of Articles on Agrarian History, 1990 Raine Morgan Millstones for Medieval Manors David L Farmer Deer and Deer Farming in Medieval England Jean Birrell Small Farms in a Sussex Weald Parish, 1800-60 June A Sheppard Beadoc — The British East Africa Disabled Officers’ Colony and the White Frontier in Kenya C J D Duder The Golden Sheep of Roman Andalusia A T Fear Some Reservations on Dr Ward on the ’Rental Policy of the English Peerage, 1649-60’ R W Hoyle Social History and Agricultural History Alun Howkins Professor W G Hoskins — a Memoir Maurice Beresford List of Books and Pamphlets on Agrarian History 1991 V J Morris and D J Orton Book Reviews: The Victorian History of the Counties of England: a History of Wiltshire, XIV, edited by D A Crowley J H Bettey Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640, by Martin Ingram Barbara J Todd Historic Farm Buildings, by Susanna Wade Martins and Old Farm Buildings in a New Countryside, edited by Susanna Wade Martins Colum Giles Grano e mercanti nella Puglia del Seicento, by Elena Papagna David Ormrod Regions and industries: a perspective on the industrial revolution in Britain, edited by Pat Hudson J A Chartres Before the Luddites, Custom, community and machinery in the English Woollen industry, 1776-1809, by Adrian Randall Kiyoshi Sakamaki ‘By a Flash and a Scare’. Arson, Animal Maiming, and Poaching in East Anglia 1815-1870, by J E Archer Bethanie Afton Industry and Innovation: Selected Essays by W H Chaloner, edited by D A Farnie and W O Henderson Gerard L Turnbull John Bennett Lawes: the Record of his Genius, by G V Dyke Stewart Richards Lille and the Dutch Revoit: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582, by Robert S Duplessis Peter Clark The French Revolution. An Economic Interpretation, by Florin Aftalion Hugh Gough An Economic History of the Poor Law, 1750-1850, by George R Boyer Anne Digby Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925, by Alun Howkins Michael Turner To be a Farmer’s Boy, by G K Nelson Stephen Caunce Victorian Countrywomen, by Pamela Horn Christine Hallas Bothy Nichts and Days: Farm Bothy Life in Angus and the Means, by David G Adams Stephen Caunce Kings and Lords in Conquest England, by Robin Fleming, Pauline Stafford Before the Black Death: Studies in the ‘Crisis’ oft he Early Fourteenth Century, edited by Bruce M S Campbell D L Farmer A Rural Society after the Black Death, by L R Poos R H Britnell The French Economy in the Nineteenth Century, by Maurice Lévy-Leboyer and Fran¢ois Bourguignon George Grantham A Peasant’s Voice to the Landowners, by John Denson of Waterbeach, 1830, edited by JR Ravensdale Malcolm Chase Land, Labour and Agriculture, 1720-1920: Essaysfo r Gordon Mingay, edited by B A Holderness and Michael Turner Roger ] P Kain Owners and Occupiers, by R H Campbell Ian D Whyte Fitfo r Heroes? Land Settlement in Scotland after World War 1, by Leah Leneman Stephen Caunce Domestic Strategies: Work and Family in France and Italy 1600- 1800, edited by Stuart Woolf Katrina Honeyman From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe, by P Bonnassie, and The Origins ofP easant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, by P Freedman H B Clarke Estadisticas Historicas de la Produccién Agraria Espafiola, 1859— 1935, by Grupo de Estudios de Historia Rural Joseph Harrison Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870, by David W Sabean John Perkins Die Bauerliche Gesellschaft Ungarns in der Zeit Zwischen den Beiden Weltkriegen, by Péter Gunst D J Davis Borrelyngen on Bornholm, Denmark: A Heath on Rocky Ground. Exploitation and Vegetation from Antiquity to the Present Day, by Vald M Mikkelsen David D Bartley A Place of their Own, by Ray Abrahams W R Mead Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800—1921, edited by E Kingston-Mann and T Mixter Stuart Thompstone Peasant Russia, Civil War. The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-1921), by Orlando Figes Colin Johnson Rural Russia under the New Regime, by V P Danilov John Channon Landownership and Power in Modern Europe, edited by Ralph Gibson and Martin Blinkhorn F M L Thompson Innovation and Technology in Europe from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, edited by Peter Mathias and John A Davis C H Lee Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. Volume 2, America and the Wider World, by William N Parker J R Killick The Rise and Fall oft he Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History, by P D Curtin David Richardson A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800, by Timothy Silver Walter Minchinton Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System, edited by Barbara L Solow Walter Minchinton 193 Canadian Papers in Rural History, VIl, edited by Donald H Akenson G E Mingay 194 Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, by Sarah Carter David Riches 194 Markets, Money and Empire: The Political Economy of the Australian Wool Industry, by Kosmas Tsokhas Tim Rooth 195 The Transformation of Rural Society in the Third World, edited by M Morner and T Svensson Colin Sage 196 Commercialization and Agricultural Development, Central and Eastern China, 1870-1937, by Loren Brandt Gregor Benton 196 Azania: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa Roy Brigden 197 Wetlands: A Threatened Landscape, edited by Michael Williams John Sheail 197 Conference Report: ‘Rural Society and the Poor’. Winter Conference 1991 Joan Thirsk 81 Conference Report: Spring Conference 1992 John R Walton 173 Shorter Notices 93, 198 Notes and Comments 63, 150, 175 Notes on Contributors 22, 172 Printed by The Charlesworth Group, Huddersfield, UK, 0484 517077