Economics and Social History Alumni
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC 1+3)
College of Humanities, University of Exeter
Start date: September 2013
Graduation date: 2018
Research topic: Agrarian Capitalism in England, c.1650 - c.1800: A new methodological approach
My research challenges traditional approaches to the development of agrarian capitalism in England by proposing a new way of defining and measuring capitalist agrarian development. I employ an innovative methodology to reconstruct and map seventeenth- and eighteenth-century landholding in more detail than has previously been possible. Using this dataset, I examine the lives of individual cultivators, focusing on subletting, by-employment, life cycle, labour, and market orientation.
Research supervisors: Professor Henry French, Dr Freyja Cox Jensen
Professional memberships/Positions held:
Member of the Economic History Society
Member of the British Agricultural History Society
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Email: jmr208@exeter.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshrhodes12
Website/Blog: https://eprofile.exeter.ac.uk/joshrhodes