Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820 (Past and Present Publications) - Hardcover

Neeson, J. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521440548 ISBN 13: 9780521440547

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be published in the past generation. 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 rights 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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Review

'Commoners ... will transform the understanding of [eighteenth-century] agrarian and social history.' E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common

'Little can be said in criticism of this wonderful book... Commoners is a major contribution to an emerging view.' Jane Humphries, Journal of Economic History

Book Description

This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be published in the past generation, winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521440548
• ISBN 13: 9780521440547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 396