Geography and modernity : changing land, law, and life on Cranborne Chase in the nineteenth century
Cranborne Chase is distinctive not only for its predominantly rural landscape but also for its history as a hunting franchise. A vast expanse stretching into three counties - Dorset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire - it remained subject to premodern laws and land use patterns well into the modern period. T...
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University of Oxford
2007
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