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Title Custom and commercialisation in English rural society : revisiting Tawney and Postan / edited by J.P. Bowen and A.T. Brown.

Publication Info. Hertfordshire, UK : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in regional and local history ; volume 14
Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; General Editor's preface; Preface; Introduction: Custom and commercialisation in English rural society -- James P. Bowen and A.T. Brown; Part I: Perspectives; 1: Tawney and Postan: two pathways to understanding the pre-industrial economy -- Christopher Dyer; 2: Rural industry and the peasant agrarian economy: a study of the iron industry in medieval England -- Alexandra Sapoznik; 3: English agrarian structures in a European context, 1300-1925 -- John Broad; Part II: Land and Mobility.
4: Farming the Kentish marshlands: continuity and change in the late Middle Ages -- Sheila Sweetinburgh5: 'The struggle for the commons': commons, custom and cottages in Shropshire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- James P. Bowen; Part III: Custom and Commerce; 6: The economics of shipwreck in late medieval Suffolk -- Tom Johnson; 7: Custom and competition for woodland resources in early modern High and Low Furness, Lancashire -- William D. Shannon; 8: Custom, common right and commercialisation in the Forest of Dean, c.1605-40 -- Simon Sandall; Part IV: Accommodating Change.
9: A money economy? Provisioning Durham Cathedral across the dissolution, 1350-1600 -- A.T. Brown10: Elizabethan entrepreneurs: three clothiers of the Frome Valley, 1550-1600 -- John Gaisford; 11: 'The fellowship of the town': constituting the commonality of an English country town, Cirencester, c.1200-1800 -- David Rollison; Afterword: Small places, big questions: reintegrating social and economic history, c.1350-1750 -- Andy Wood; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962. Agrarian problem in the sixteenth century.
Postan, M. M. (Michael Moïssey), 1899-1981. Medieval economy and society : an economic history of Britain in the Middle Ages.
Land tenure -- Great Britain -- History.
Land tenure.
Great Britain.
History.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 16th century.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bowen, J. P. (James P.)
Brown, A. T.
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