Alternative Agriculture: A History

Joan Thirsk

OUP Oxford

Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England

The 16th and 17th centuries in England saw a remarkable diversification of industry fostered largely by the government, which sought to reduce expensive imports and lessen dependence on foreign goods. These new sources of production expanded employment, and thus brought the growing population into the economy and provided for the emergence of a consumer society. Emphasizing the role of labor in creating wealth, political economists thereafter formulated a new view of the economy. This volume provides an  insightful analysis of this transformation and looks at the impact new consumer industries had on the English economy and economic ideas.

Business & Money

Industries

Oxford University Press

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

English peasant farming: The agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times ([Methuen library reprints])

Economics

METHUEN

<p>This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms has been added for the non-specialist.</p>

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800 (Past and Present Publications)

E.P. Thompson

Jack R. Goody

Real Estate

Cambridge University Press

Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day

New York

<p>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.</p>

Rural Economy of England

Bloomsbury Publishing

English Peasant Farming

Taylor&Francis

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