Title The Economic Causes of the English Civil War : Freedom of Trade and the English Revolution

Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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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 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 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 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 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? Notes 17 The Economy of the State-The First Fully Capitalist Society Print version record Subject Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century Commons -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century Land use -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century Free trade -- England -- History -- 17th century Agriculture -- Economic aspects Commerce Commons -- Economic aspects Economics Free trade Land use -- Political aspects War -- Causes SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056794 Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Economic aspects Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Political aspects England -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century Subject England Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000507720 1000507726 9781000517644 1000517640 9781000512687 1000512681 9780429325557 042932555X

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