1st Edition
The Transformation of a Peasant Economy Townspeople and Villagers in the Lutterworth Area, 1500–1700
By John Goodacre
Copyright 1994
348 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Urban and rural communities; Population and poverty; The farming economy; The town economy; Town and village; The peasant economy transformed; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
John Goodacre
