Paul Warde is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge.

"the implications of Warde's conclusions for how we think about peasant economic activity, for the nature of rhetoric emplyed in disputes within the village commune, and for the interaction of the center and localities in the formation of the early modern territorial state in Europe are ample rewards for the perseverance of the nonspecialist reader." - Geoffrey Dipple, Augustana College

• List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The peasant dynamic; 2. Power and property; 3. The regulative drive; 4. From clearance to crisis?; 5. The two ecologies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Paul Warde is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge.

"the implications of Warde's conclusions for how we think about peasant economic activity, for the nature of rhetoric emplyed in disputes within the village commune, and for the interaction of the center and localities in the formation of the early modern territorial state in Europe are ample rewards for the perseverance of the nonspecialist reader." - Geoffrey Dipple, Augustana College

• List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The peasant dynamic; 2. Power and property; 3. The regulative drive; 4. From clearance to crisis?; 5. The two ecologies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Paul Warde is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge.

"the implications of Warde's conclusions for how we think about peasant economic activity, for the nature of rhetoric emplyed in disputes within the village commune, and for the interaction of the center and localities in the formation of the early modern territorial state in Europe are ample rewards for the perseverance of the nonspecialist reader." - Geoffrey Dipple, Augustana College

• List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The peasant dynamic; 2. Power and property; 3. The regulative drive; 4. From clearance to crisis?; 5. The two ecologies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.