Commoners : common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820
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Commoners : common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820
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Cambridge University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. 346-369
Includes index
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This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be 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 rights 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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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