Commoners Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1996
Description:
Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, 'Commoners' challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.
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