Development of Agrarian Capitalism - Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580

Zusatztext Whittle maintains a commendable hold on both her arguments and the evidence which she elucidates. There are separate thematic introductions, interim summaries, and straightforward conclusions to each section. The unsophisticated reader (and reviewer) is seldom lost and the book in fact provides and excellent guide, not merely to its own theme but to the ways in which real research can be done on the big questions. Klappentext This is an important new study of the roots of capitalism. Jane Whittle provides a penetrating analysis of the links between peasant society and early capitalism as she discusses north-east Norfolk, a county which played a leading role in the agrarian revolution. She uses a rich variety of sources from the precocious and commercialized locality to examine a range of topics, from the manorial system and serfdom, land rights, land markets and inheritance, to the distribution of land and wealth, the development of labor pools, and changing labor laws. Zusammenfassung Jane Whittle's examination of rural England in the 15th and 16th centuries asks how capitalist it was, and how and why it changed over 150 years. She relates ideas of peasant society and capitalism to a local study of north-east Norfolk, one of the crucibles of the agrarian revolution.

Product details

• Authors: J. Whittle, Jane Whittle, Jane (Lecturer in Economic and Social His Whittle, Whittle Jane
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2000
• EAN: 9780198208426
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820842-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Medieval Texts; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Norfolk, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), CE period up to c 1500, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval