Research Catalog

Title

The transformation of a peasant economy : townspeople and villagers in the Lutterworth area, 1500-1700 / John Goodacre.

Author

Goodacre, John.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England : Scholar Press ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xix, 322 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Communities, contexts and cultures, Leicester studies in English local history

Uniform Title

Communities, contexts, and cultures.

Subjects

• Peasants > England > Lutterworth
• Market towns > England > Lutterworth
• Lutterworth (England) > Economic conditions
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > England > Lutterworth

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-310) and index.

Contents

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 century. Enclosed 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.

ISBN

1859280730 :

OCLC

• 32050034
• ocm32050034

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries