The landscape history of North-East England has not been studied as much
as other parts of the country. This book begins to fill this gap by
utilizing Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to re-assess the familiar topics of
enclosure and improvement. It reveals the contribution of local
'actors' - including landowners, tenants and the landscape itself - to
these 'processes'. In so doing it transforms our understanding of the
way in which the landscape of Northumberland was created during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and carries wider implications for
how we might approach enclosure in other parts of the country.