Chapter 1. A differentiated countryside? -- Chapter 2. Regionalising the rural -- Chapter 3. Theorising differentiation -- Chapter 4. The 'preserved countryside' -- Chapter 5. The 'contested countryside' -- Chapter 6. The 'paternalistic countryside' -- Chapter 7. The differentiated polity -- Chapter 8. The dynamics of differentiation
Summary
Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', the book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through case studies of the 'preserved', the 'contested' and the 'paternalistic' countryside