This 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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"Commoners....will transform the understanding of [eighteenth-century] agrarian and social history." Customs in Common
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Challenging the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization, this text shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages. Their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted a pervasive sense of loss.
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This review is from: Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 (Past and Present Publications) (Paperback)
According to E.P. Thompson (Customs in Common) best work on the subject -- and if not the only then certainly the most important. Sorry, I'm not an academic, just a student. For an insightful review, please look in a history journal.
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I found this well researched book fascinating. I have never before read a non-fiction work in one sitting (Then I reread it taking notes). This work undermines (without ever saying so ) many of the cultural myths that drive our current economy. Commons have been viable and sustainable economies and cultures. I should also add that as an avid science fiction reader I found a description of as alien a society as any I have otherwise read about.
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From the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, evaluations of common right were inseparable from the larger question of enclosure and the engrossment of small farms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enclosing parishes, cottage commoners, small commoners, commoning economy, smallest occupiers, stinting agreement, fen reeves, fenland manors, landless commoners, commonable land, small occupiers, unstinted commons, landed commoners, acreage equivalent, field tellers, smaller occupiers, vale parishes, tithe compensation, cum membris, forest parishes, parliamentary enclosure movement, enclosures taking place, forest commoners, open parishes, pound breach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Haddon, General View, Burton Latimer, Northampton Mercury, House of Commons, John Clare, Board of Agriculture, Annals of Agriculture, Arthur Young, Moreton Pinkney, Agricultural History Review, Small Landowner, Greens Norton, Militia Lists, General Report, Joseph Harper, Village Labourer, Economic History Review, English Parliamentary Enclosure, Grand File, Gilbert White's Journals, Sutton Bassett, Charles Vancouver, Fitz Misc, Geddington Chase New!
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From the fifteenth century to the nineteenth, evaluations of common right were inseparable from the larger question of enclosure and the engrossment of small farms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enclosing parishes, cottage commoners, small commoners, commoning economy, smallest occupiers, stinting agreement, fen reeves, fenland manors, landless commoners, commonable land, small occupiers, unstinted commons, landed commoners, acreage equivalent, field tellers, smaller occupiers, vale parishes, tithe compensation, cum membris, forest parishes, parliamentary enclosure movement, enclosures taking place, forest commoners, open parishes, pound breach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Haddon, General View, Burton Latimer, Northampton Mercury, House of Commons, John Clare, Board of Agriculture, Annals of Agriculture, Arthur Young, Moreton Pinkney, Agricultural History Review, Small Landowner, Greens Norton, Militia Lists, General Report, Joseph Harper, Village Labourer, Economic History Review, English Parliamentary Enclosure, Grand File, Gilbert White's Journals, Sutton Bassett, Charles Vancouver, Fitz Misc, Geddington Chase New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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