LEADER 03617nam 22006013 450 001 9910777717103321 005 20230822025705.0 010 $a1-282-30971-4 010 $a9786612309717 010 $a0-8264-4442-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000754742 035 $a(EBL)436962 035 $a(OCoLC)655102219 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000240101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12076419 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10265611 035 $a(PQKB)10013577 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436962 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000754742 100 $a20130418d1984|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rural economy of England $ecollected essays /$fJoan Thirsk 210 $aLondon $cContinuum International Publishing$d1984 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aHistory series The rural economy of England 311 $a0-907628-28-1 327 $aContents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- I: The Content and Sources 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, 1500-1700 -- XV: 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 -- Index. 330 $aNo 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. 606 $aAgriculture$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aLand use$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aRural development$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xEconomic conditions 607 $aEngland$xRural conditions 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yStuarts, 1603-1714 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yTudors, 1485-1603 615 0$aAgriculture$xHistory. 615 0$aLand use$xHistory. 615 0$aRural development$xHistory. 676 $a330.9420091734 700 $aThirsk$b Joan$0140608 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777717103321 996 $aThe rural economy of England$93749861 997 $aUNINA