The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
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The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

The Development of Agrarian Capitalism: Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

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Jane Whittle (Author)  

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This is an important new scholarly study of the roots of capitalism. Jane Whittle's penetrating examination of rural England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries asks how capitalist it was, and how and why it changed over the century and a half under scrutiny. Her book intelligently relates ideas of peasant society and capitalism to a local study of north-east Norfolk, a county that was to become one of the crucibles of the so-called agrarian revolution. Dr Whittle uses the rich variety of historical sources produced by this precocious commercialized locality to examine a wide range of topics from the manorial system and serfdom, rights to land and the level of rent, the land market and inheritance, to the distribution of land and wealth, the numbers of landless, wage-earners, and rural craftsmen, servants, and the labour laws. numerous tables and figures
Jane Whittle is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.
  • Contributor: Jane Whittle
  • Imprint: Clarendon Press
  • ISBN13: 9780198208426
  • Number of Pages: 376
  • Packaged Dimensions: 146x224x25mm
  • Packaged Weight: 572
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Release Date: 2000-05-11
  • Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Jane Whittle is Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.

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