02936nam 2200493 450 991046124710332120200520144314.01-283-20211-597866132021160-8264-4524-1(CKB)2670000000107195(EBL)743206(OCoLC)745866757(MiAaPQ)EBC743206(Au-PeEL)EBL743206(CaPaEBR)ebr11235658(CaONFJC)MIL320211(EXLCZ)99267000000010719520181003d1984 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe rural economy of England collected essays /Joan ThirskLondon :Hambledon Press,[1984]©19841 online resource (433 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-907628-29-X 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 CountrysideXIV 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 PowerNo 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.EnglandEconomic conditionsElectronic books.330.9420091734Thirsk Joan140608MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461247103321The rural economy of England2199110UNINA