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Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 - Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited (Paperback)
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Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 - Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited (Paperback)
Series: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
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Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late
Tudor and early modern Britain. This volume revisits a classic book
by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the
Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed
landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the
period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property
relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more
firmly capitalist system of the eighteenth century. This transition
period is widely recognised as crucial to Britain's long term
economic development, laying the foundation for the Industrial
Revolution of the eighteenth century. Remarkably, Tawney's book has
remained the standard text on landlord-tenant relations for over a
century. Here, Tawney's book is re-evaluated by leading experts in
agrarian and legal history, taking its themes as a departure point
to provide for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late
Tudor and early modern Britain. The introduction looks at how
Tawney's Agrarian Problem was written, its place in the
historiography of agrarian England and the current state of
research. Survey chapters examine the late medieval period, a
comparison with Scotland, and Tawney's conception of capitalism,
whilst the remaining chapters focus on four issues that were
central to Tawney's arguments: enclosure disputes, the security of
customary tenure; the conversion of customarytenure to leasehold;
and other landlord strategies to raise revenues. The balance of
power between landlords and tenants determined how the wealth of
agrarian England was divided in this crucial period of economic
development - this book reveals how this struggle was played out.
JANE WHITTLE is professor of rural history at Exeter University.
Contributors: Christopher Brooks, Christopher Dyer, Heather Falvey,
Harold Garrett-Goodyear, Julian Goodare, Elizabeth Griffiths,
Jennifer Holt, Briony McDonagh, Jean Morrin, David Ormrod, William
D. Shannon, Jane Whittle, Andy Wood. Foreword by Keith Wrightson
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