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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461247103321

Autore

Thirsk Joan

Titolo

The rural economy of England : collected essays / / Joan Thirsk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Hambledon Press, , [1984]

©1984

ISBN

1-283-20211-5

9786613202116

0-8264-4524-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Disciplina

330.9420091734

Soggetti

Electronic books.

England Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; I The Content and Source of English Agrarian History after 1500; II Sources of Information on Population, 1500-1760; III Unexplored Sources in Local Records; IV The Common Fields; V The Origin of the Common Fields; VI Tudor Enclosures; VII The Sales of Royalist Land during the Interregnum; VIII The Restoration Land Settlement; IX Farming in Kesteven, 1540-1640; X The Isle of Axholme before Vermuyden; XI Horn and Thorn in Staffordshire: The Economy of a Pastoral County; XII Seventeenth-Century Agriculture and Social Change; XIII Industries in the Countryside

XIV The Fantastical Folly of Fashion: The English Stocking Knitting Industry, 1500-1700XV New Crops and Their Diffusion: Tobacco-Growing in Seventeenth-Century England; XVI Projects for Gentlemen, Jobs for the Poor: Mutual Aid in the Vale of Tewkesbury, 1600-1630; XVII Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; XVIII The Family; XIX Younger Sons in the Seventeenth Century; XX The European Debate on Customs of Inheritance, 1500-1700; XXI Horses in Early Modern England: for Service, for Pleasure, for Power

Sommario/riassunto

No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future



research. The subjects of this collection include the origin and nature of the common fields, Tudor enclosures, the Commonwealth confiscation of Royalist land and its subsequent return after the Restoration, inheritance customs, and the role of industries in the rural economy, among them stocking knitting.