Commoners : common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820
This book 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
Print Book, English, 1996
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1996
History
xiv, 382 pages ; 23 cm
9780521567749, 9780521440547, 0521567742, 0521440548
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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.