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Peter Fowler. Farming in the First Millennium AD: British agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror.(Book Review)

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From: Antiquity
Date: 20040301
Author:Dark, Petra

PETER FOWLER. Farming in the First Millennium AD: British agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror. xviii+393 pages, 63 figures. 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-81364-6 hardback 75 [pounds sterling], 0-521-89056-X paperback 27.95 [pounds sterling].

This book forms a welcome sequel to Peter Fowler's (1983) classic earlier work, The farming of prehistoric Britain, and follows a similar structure. A general introduction to the topic is followed by a broad overview of the principal categories of evidence for farming, the nature of the ...

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