Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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1030929
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Doc. No
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b785299
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Main Entry
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Neeson, J. M.
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Title & Author
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Commoners : : common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820 /\ J.M. Neeson.
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Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1993.
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Series Statement
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Past and present publications
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Page. NO
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xiv, 382 pages ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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0521440548
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: 0521567742
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: 9780521440547
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: 9780521567749
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-369) and index.
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Contents
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1. The question of value -- I. Survival. 2. Who had common right? 3. Threats before enclosure. 4. Ordering the commons. 5. Enforcing the orders. 6. The uses of waste -- II. Decline. 7. Two villages. 8. Decline and disappearance. 9. Resisting enclosure -- III. Conclusion. 10. 'Making freeman of the slave' -- Appendix A Using the Land Tax -- Appendix B Acreage equivalents -- Appendix C Correcting and editing the Land Tax -- Appendix D Landholding estimates.
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Abstract
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"Commoners is both a social history of the smallest landholders and users of commons in eighteenth and early nineteenth century English villages, and a powerful reassessment of the entire course of English rural history during that period." "For much of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England all occupiers of common-field land and many cottagers shared common grazing over common fields and wastes. In forest and fen manors, and others with substantial uncultivated commons or well-defended customs, even the landless found pasture and collected fuel, food and materials. Here common right ensured the survival until parliamentary enclosure of a peasantry whose social relations were in part shaped by access to land, common agriculture and shared use-rights. Commoners describes some of these villages. It looks at entitlement to commons, the co-operative regulation of common fields and pastures, and the harvests taken from uncultivated common waste. It suggests why and where common right survived until enclosure, and it reviews the contemporary debate on the social implications of common right and the public policy issues at the heart of parliamentary enclosure. Finally, it describes a vigorous opposition to enclosure and a significant decline of small landholders when common lands were enclosed." "In short, Commoners makes shared land-use a prism through which to see both the economies and the social relations of common-field villages. A work of unusual strength and imagination, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common right 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."--Jacket.
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Subject
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Commons-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Subject
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Inclosures-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Land tenure-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Subject
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Peasants-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Subject
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Inclosures-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Land tenure-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Subject
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Peasantry-- England-- History-- 18th century.
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Subject
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Communaux-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Subject
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Enclosures-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Subject
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Paysannerie-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Subject
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Propriété foncière-- Angleterre-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Subject
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Commons.
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conditions sociales-- vie rurale-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1700-- 1820.
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Subject
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Dorf
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Inclosures.
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Land tenure.
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Öffentliches Grundeigentum
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Subject
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Peasants.
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Privatisierung
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Rural conditions.
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société (milieu humain)-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1700-- 1820.
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Subject
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vie rurale-- changement-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1700-- 1820.
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Subject
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Sozialgeschichte 1700-1820.
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Subject
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Enclosure.
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Subject
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Grondbezit.
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Subject
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Sociale verandering.
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Subject
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England, Rural conditions.
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Subject
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Angleterre, Conditions rurales, 18e siècle.
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Subject
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England
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Subject
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England.
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Subject
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Großbritannien
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Dewey Classification
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333.2
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LC Classification
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HD1289.G7N44 1993
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NLM classification
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15.64bcl
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15.70bcl
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48.10bcl
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7,25ssgn
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86.62bcl
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cci1icclacc
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NW 2350rvk
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