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Author Goodacre, John

Title The Transformation of a Peasant Economy : Townspeople and Villagers in the Lutterworth Area, 1500-1700
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations, maps and figures; List of tables; List of weights and measures; Notes on orthography, glossary and prosopography; General Editor's foreword; Preface; Introduction; I URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES; The classification of communities; The characteristics of the market town; The survival of markets; The changing agrarian economy; II POPULATION AND POVERTY; Lutterworth area villagers; Lutterworth townspeople; III THE FARMING ECONOMY; Village economies; Peasant husbandry in the sixteenth century
Enclosed ground farming in the sixteenth centuryEnclosed ground farming in the seventeenth century; Common-field farming in the seventeenth century; Improving farmers and dispossessed peasants; IV THE TOWN ECONOMY; Town farmers and non-agricultural occupations; Distributors of agricultural produce and provisions; Craftsmen; Retail traders; The town transformed; V TOWN AND VILLAGE: THE PEASANT ECONOMY TRANSFORMED; Appendix tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Market towns -- England -- Lutterworth
Market towns
England -- Lutterworth
England
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351880992
1351880993