Commoners

Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820

AvJ. M. Neeson,Lyndal Roper

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common rights and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-01-26
Mått:137 x 214 x 21 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Past and Present Publications
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521567749
Utmärkelser:Winner of Whitfield Prize 1994

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'Commoners ... will transform the understanding of [eighteenth-century] agrarian and social history.' E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The question of value; Part I. Survival: 2. Who had common right? 3. Threats before enclosure; 4. Ordering the commons; 5. Enforcing the orders; 6.The uses of waste; Part II. Decline: 7. Two villages; 8. Decline and disappearance; 9. Resisting enclosure; Part III. Conclusion: 10. 'Making freeman of the slave'; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.