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

Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820
ISBN-10
0521567742
ISBN-13
9780521567749
Category
History
Pages
400
Language
English
Published
1996-01-26
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
J. M. Neeson

Description

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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