Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820This is a paperback edition of one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history 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 right 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. |
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... critics . And , though I winced , groaned and argued , I thank him for all these things . To the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada I am grateful for the timely award of a research grant and a research - time ...
... critics . And , though I winced , groaned and argued , I thank him for all these things . To the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada I am grateful for the timely award of a research grant and a research - time ...
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... critics of commons did not always believe their eyes . They noted the value of common lands but concluded that commoners were poor : ' We don't find them ' , Pen- nington wrote of fenland commoners , ' in any better condition than the ...
... critics of commons did not always believe their eyes . They noted the value of common lands but concluded that commoners were poor : ' We don't find them ' , Pen- nington wrote of fenland commoners , ' in any better condition than the ...
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... critics thought him too accurate , too unsentimental in his record of village life , unwilling to idealize , reluctant to argue a case . They remarked on his ability to present the poor without affectation or idealisation ' . But the ...
... critics thought him too accurate , too unsentimental in his record of village life , unwilling to idealize , reluctant to argue a case . They remarked on his ability to present the poor without affectation or idealisation ' . But the ...
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... critics of enclosure and engrossment . But their testimony is vital because on crucial questions they give us the view from below . Morland painted cottagers ' livestock , Clare described the breaking apart of customary relationships ...
... critics of enclosure and engrossment . But their testimony is vital because on crucial questions they give us the view from below . Morland painted cottagers ' livestock , Clare described the breaking apart of customary relationships ...
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Contents
The question of value | 15 |
SURVIVAL | 53 |
Who had common right? | 55 |
Threats before enclosure | 81 |
Ordering the commons | 110 |
Enforcing the orders | 134 |
The uses of waste | 158 |
DECLINE | 185 |
Resisting enclosure | 259 |
CONCLUSION | 295 |
Making freeman of the slave | 297 |
Using the Land Tax | 331 |
Acreage equivalents | 342 |
Correcting and editing the Land Tax | 344 |
Landholding estimates | 345 |
Bibliography | 346 |
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Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 J. M. Neeson No preview available - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
acreage equivalent agistment Annals of Agriculture arable argued Board of Agriculture Buckinghamshire Burton Latimer cattle cent Chapter common land common pasture common right common waste common-field cottage commoners cottage rights counter-petition County court critics of commons decline disappearance economy eighteenth century enclosing parishes Enclosure Awards enclosure Bills England fallow farms fences fieldsmen forest fuel furze grazing H(BL Helpston holdings horses Jls House John Clare jury labourers Land Tax returns landholders landless commoners landlords landowners less Lord manors Maxey Midland moners Moreton Pinkney Northampton Northampton Mercury Northamptonshire Northants open parishes open-field overstocking owner-occupiers Oxfordshire Parliament Parliamentary Enclosure peasant petition poor population Raunds rented Ringstead rural sheep Shutlanger small farmers small occupiers small owners smallholders stints Stoke Bruerne survival Sutton Bassett tenants Thirsk Thomas Thomas à Becket trespass value of common View wage Warwicks Warwickshire West Haddon Weston by Welland Whitfield Whittlebury Wilbarston wood
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