Description |
xiii, 547 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 1 |
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Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 1
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Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 1250-1800 Richard M. Smith -- 2. Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community Bruce M. S. Campbell -- 3. Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 1260-1320 Richard M. Smith -- 4. Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century Jack Ravensdale -- 5. Industrial employment and the rural land market 1380-1520 Ian Blanchard -- 6. Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 1400-1540 Christopher Dyer -- 7. The erosion of the family-land bond in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a methodological note Zvi Razi -- 8. Changes in the link between families and land in the west midlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Christopher Dyer -- 9. Kinship in an English village: Terling, Essex 1550-1700 Keith Wrightson -- 10. The myth of the peasantry: family and economy in a northern parish Alan MacFarlane -- 11. Poverty, poor relief and the life-cycle: some evidence from seventeenth-century Norfolk Tim Wales -- 12. The receipt of poor relief and family situation: Aldenham, Hertfordshire 1630-90 W. Newman Brown -- 13. Widows in pre-industrial society: an essay upon their economic functions B. A. Holderness -- 14. Real property, marriage and children: the evidence from four pre-industrial communities Richard Wall -- 15. The nineteenth-century peasantry of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire Dennis R. Mills -- Consolidated bibliography -- Index |
Analysis |
England Rural regions Land tenure 1250-1850 |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Paperback edition published 2002 |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 519-535 |
Subject |
Families -- England -- History.
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Inheritance and succession -- England -- History.
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Land tenure -- England -- History.
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Real property -- England -- History.
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SUBJECT |
England http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148 -- Population http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006969 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Population http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006969 -- History.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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Author |
Smith, Richard Michael, 1946-
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LC no. |
84009475 |
ISBN |
0521266114 |
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0521522196 (paperback) |
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