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

Name: Commoners Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820
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ISBN: 9780521567749

ISBN-10: 0521567742

ISBN-13: 9780521567749

Edition: 1996

Authors: J. M. Neeson, Lyndal Roper

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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.

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.43" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

CRIS BEAM is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.Lyndal Roper is professor of history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College.



Introduction



The question of value



Survival



Who had common right?



Threats before enclosure



Ordering the commons



Enforcing the orders



The uses of waste



Decline



Two villages



Decline and disappearance



Resisting enclosure



Conclusion



'Making freeman of the slave'


Appendices


Bibliography


Index