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

Neeson, J. M.

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ISBN 10: 0521440548 ISBN 13: 9780521440547

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

'Commoners ... will transform the understanding of [eighteenth-century] agrarian and social history.' E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common

'Little can be said in criticism of this wonderful book... Commoners is a major contribution to an emerging view.' Jane Humphries, Journal of Economic History

Descrizione del libro:

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521440548
• ISBN 13: 9780521440547
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 396