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agricultural commercialisation
Ancient Enclosures
Author_John Goodacre
Burial Figures
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Common Field
Common Field Husbandry
Common Field Villages
Common Flock
Common Husbandry
Early Enclosures
early modern England
enclosure movement
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Hearth Tax Assessments
Landless Wage Labourers
Large Scale Arable Farming
Lay Subsidy Rolls
local history research
Local Market System
Market Harborough
Midland Revolt
Newnham Paddox
Open Field Parishes
Open Field Villages
Pasture Grounds
Peas Crop
Probate Records
Public House Keepers
rural market town economic change
rural social structure
Seventeenth Century Enclosure
Sheep Commons
Town Hall
urbanisation processes
Product details
- ISBN 9781859280737
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.
John Goodacre, University of Leicester, UK
