1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: The Contentious Tithe (1976) The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture 1750-1850
By Eric J. Evans
Copyright 1976
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1976, this book studies the impact of a uniquely unpopular tax on English rural communities. It examines the tithe system during a period when it was subject to mounting attack from political economists, agricultural improvers and radicals alike. Professor Evans has made extensive use of ecclesiastical and estate records to explain why the tithe issue became so unpopular at... Read more
Preface
Abbreviations and note on spelling and punctuation
1. The Economic and Social Status of the Eighteenth-Century Clergy
2. The Nature of the Tithe Problem
3. Tithe Disputes and Litigation
4. The Mounting Pressure for Reform
5. Tithes and the Enclosure Movement
6. The Tithe Commutation Act and its Antecedents
7. Tithe Commutation and the Agricultural Interest
8. Epilogue: From Commutation to Exoneration 1850-1936
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Eric J. Evans
