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Author Thirsk, Joan.

Title The rural economy of England : collected essays / Joan Thirsk
Published London : Hambledon Press, 1984

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) : illustrations
Series History series ; 25
History series (Hambledon Press) ; 25.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; I: The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History after 1500; II: Sources of Information on Population, 1500-1760; III: Unexplored Sources in Local Records; IV: The Common Fields; V: The Origin of the Common Fields; VI: Tudor Enclosures; VII: The Sales of Royalist Land during the Interregnum; VIII: The Restoration Land Settlement; IX: Farming in Kesteven, 1540-1640; X: The Isle of Axholme before Vermuyden; XI: Horn and Thorn in Staffordshire: the Economy of a Pastoral County
Summary No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research. The subjects of this collection include the origin and nature of the common fields, Tudor enclosures, the Commonwealth confiscation of Royalist land and its subsequent return after the Restoration, inheritance customs, and the role of industries in the rural economy, among them stocking knitting
Analysis England Rural regions Economic conditions, 1500-1750
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Economic history
Rural conditions
Regionalwirtschaft
Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle.
Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
Vie rurale -- Angleterre (GB) -- Histoire.
Geschichte (1500-1760)
SUBJECT England -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043294
England -- Rural conditions
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056776
Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056789
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808
Subject England
Great Britain
England
Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions rurales.
Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions rurales -- 17e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions rurales -- 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions économiques -- 1500-1760.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826444424
0826444423
9780826445247
0826445241
1283202115
9781283202114
9786613202116
6613202118