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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2010
      July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511522741
      9780521567749
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522741
      Dimensions:
      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 400 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
      Series:
      Past and Present Publications
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Past and Present Publications
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994

    Reviews

    ‘Commoners ... will transform the understanding of [eighteenth-century] agrarian and social history.’

    E. P. Thompson Source: Customs in Common

    ‘Little can be said in criticism of this wonderful book... Commoners is a major contribution to an emerging view.’

    Jane Humphries Source: Journal of Economic History

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