Description |
1 online resource (433 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Recovering the Economic Context of History; 1 The Basis of Change: The Early Breach of the Manorial Stasis in England; the Coming of the Commercial Yeoman Farmer; and the Increase of Opportunity- "The Exceeding Lucre They See Grow"; 2 Dynamics of Change: The New Shape of Interregional Trading; the Mutual Benefits of Specialisation and Exchange; and the Growth of a National Land-market |
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3 The Structures of Change: The Displacement of the Open Patterns of Occupation on the Common Lands the Timing and Effects of Enclosure; the Significance of Consolidation Without Enclosure; 4 New Patterns of Work: From Smallholders to Wage Labourers; and the Role of Industrial Activity in Undermining the Commons; 5 The Higher Profile of Architectural Form; 6 A Changing Ethos: From Conditional to Absolute Property; the Rise of Individualism and a Self-Sustaining Market; and the Growing Demand for a Right of Freedom of Trade from Arbitrary Restraints |
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7 Economic Roots of Political Change: The Merchant-Gentry Alliance Against Prerogative Customs Dues the Central, Long-Term Challenge to the Crown-"To Have a Certainty"; 8 New Definitions of Good Government: "Parliament" versus "Patent"; the Opposition to Monopolies; Freedom of Trade as the Economic Policy of the Commons; and the Unsatisfied Demand for Parliamentary Legislation; 9 Economic Aims of Parliament's Foreign Policy: Elizabeth I as the Embodiment of the National Enterprise; the Dynastic Preference of James I for the National Enemy |
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10 The Religious War of Charles I Against His Scottish Kingdom and the People of England "Left Now Only to Expect an Opportunity"; 11 The First Revolutionary Measure of the Long Parliament: The Triennial Act of February 1641-a "Course as May Not Be Eluded"; and the Relevance of the Rise of the Gentry; 12 The Triumph of Freedom of Trade: The Throwing Down of Monopolies; and the Ending of Prerogative Customs Dues |
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13 The Support of the Middle Sort: Parliament's Broad Base of Allegiance Among the Substantial Freeholders and the Merchants and Traders in the Commercial Centres-"Which Said Order Is Remaining in the Town Chest"14 Commercial, Political and Religious Connections in Parliament's West Nottinghamshire Heartland-"To Know a Law and Have a Certainty"; 15 A Middle Sort of Aristocracy: William Pierrepont and the Course of the English Revolution; 16 The Socio-Economic Limits of the Revolution: Parliament, the People and the Poor; and on Whose Side Were the Levellers? |
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17 The Economy of the State-The First Fully Capitalist Society |
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Subject |
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Commons -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Land use -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Free trade -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects
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Commerce
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Commons -- Economic aspects
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Economics
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Free trade
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Land use -- Political aspects
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War -- Causes
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Causes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056794
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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Economic aspects
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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Political aspects
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England -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century
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Subject |
England
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781000507720 |
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1000507726 |
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9781000517644 |
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1000517640 |
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9781000512687 |
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1000512681 |
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9780429325557 |
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042932555X |
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