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

• Autore: Thirsk Joan
• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum International Publishing, 1984
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 330.9420091734
• Soggetto topico: Agriculture - England - History; Land use - England - History; Rural development - England - History
• Soggetto geografico: England Economic conditions; England Rural conditions; Great Britain History 18th century; Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714; Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- 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.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The rural economy of England
• ISBN: 1-282-30971-4; 9786612309717; 0-8264-4442-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777717103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II