The Midland Revolt and the Inquisitions of Depopulation of 1607
The Midland Revolt and the Inquisitions of Depopulation of 1607

Author: Edwin Francis Gay

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-18

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781375452175

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A False Tree of Liberty
A False Tree of Liberty

Author: Susan Marks

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0199675457

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This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing about dispossession, resistance and rights, the book reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.

The England of Elizabeth
The England of Elizabeth

Author: Alfred Leslie Rowse

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9780299188146

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Thanks to Shakespeare, Hollywood, and the formidable Elizabeth I herself, Elizabethan England remains a place and time that fascinates us. Modern England still has visible memorials of the Elizabethans--the houses they built, the objects they cherished, the patterns they imposed upon the very landscape. A. L. Rowse's famously vivid portrayal of the Elizabethan world is a detailed account of that society and tradition, from the lowest social class to the men and women who governed the realm. A major new introduction from Christopher Haigh offes both a reflection on Rowse's masterpiece and an assessment of the Elizabethan Age.

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England

Author: Linda Levy Peck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1134870426

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This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early modern administration.

England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry
England's Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry

Author: Spencer Dimmock

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-05-23

Total Pages: 827

ISBN-13: 9004319441

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The world-shaking forced evictions of English peasants during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are treated by most historians as largely a 'Tudor myth'. For them, the peasantry disappeared much later through fair means thanks to industrialisation and trade. Centred on close scrutiny of the royal commission of 1517 – 'England's Second Domesday' – this book overturns these accounts. It demonstrates, unequivocally, that capitalism carved fundamental and irreversible breaches into the English countryside between 1400 and 1620. It began, grew and thrived on widespread illegal clearances of rural people and their culture by the English ruling class, long before the British industrial revolution.

Common Land and Inclosure
Common Land and Inclosure

Author: E.C.K. Gonner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 1136234241

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First published in 1966. The main object of the present work is to trace the process whereby the land of this country came into agricultural use under full individual control. That movement, as will be seen, is treated as continuous and as due in the main to the operation of large economic and, so to say, normal causes. While the rapidity and extent of inclosure varies from time to time, and while its kind undergoes certain changes, progress continues.