The rural economy of England : collected essays /: collected essays. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joan Thirsk.
• Other Names: Thirsk, Joan
• Contents: The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History after 1500 -- Sources of Information on Population, 1500-1760 -- Unexplored Sources in Local Records -- The Common Fields -- The Origin of the Common Fields -- Tudor Enclosures -- The Sales of Royalist Land during the Interregnum -- The Restoration Land Settlement -- Farming in Kesteven, 1540-1640 -- The Isle of Axtholme before Vermuyden -- Horn and Thorn in Staffordshire: the Economy of a Pastoral County -- Seventeenth-Century Agriculture and Social Change -- Industries in the Countryside -- The Fantastical Folly of Fashion: the English Stocking Knitting Industry, 1500-1700 -- New Crops and their Diffusion: Tobacco-Growing in Seventeenth-Century England -- Projects for Gentlemen, Jobs for the Poor: Mutual Aid in the Vale of Tewkesbury, 1600-1630 -- Stamford in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- The Family -- Younger Sons in the Seventeenth Century -- The European Debate on Customs of Inheritance, 1500-1700 -- Horses in Early Modern England: for Service, for Pleasure, for Power -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Hambledon Continuum
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (434 pages)
• Subjects: 330.942/009173/4; Economic history; Rural conditions; Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 18e siècle; Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire; Agriculture -- Aspect économique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1603-1714 (Stuarts); Vie rurale -- Angleterre (GB) -- Histoire; Regionalwirtschaft; Geschichte (1500-1760); England -- Economic conditions; England -- Rural conditions; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714; Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; England; Great Britain; Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions rurales; Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions rurales -- 17e siècle; Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions rurales -- 18e siècle; Grande-Bretagne -- Conditions économiques -- 1500-1760; England; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780826445247; 0826445241
• Related ISBNs: 9780907628293
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