The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

About this eBook

Author

Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, KD Weeks, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

England -- Social conditions -- 16th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40336

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40336

Release Date

July 26, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION ToC — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.PART I THE SMALL LANDHOLDER
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE RURAL POPULATION — (a) The Classes of Landholders ToC — Table I — (b) The Freeholders ToC — Table II — Column Key — (c) The Customary Tenants ToC — Table III — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER II THE PEASANTRY — (a) The Variety of Conditions ToC — (b) The Consolidation of Peasant Holdings ToC — Table IV — Column Key — (c) The Growth of a Land Market among the Peasants ToC — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III THE PEASANTRY ( continued ) — (d) The Economic Environment of the Small Cultivator ToC — Table V — Table VI — FOOTNOTES
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE PEASANTRY ( continued ) — (e) Signs of Change ToC — (f) The Growth of Competitive Rents on New Allotments ToC — (g) The Progress of Enclosure among the Peasantry ToC — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.PART II THE TRANSITION TO CAPITALIST AGRICULTURE
11. 11.CHAPTER I THE NEW RURAL ECONOMY — (a) Motives and Causes ToC — Table VII — (b) The Growth of the Large Leasehold Farm ToC — Table VIII — (c) Enclosure and Conversion by the Manorial Authorities ToC — Table IX — Table X — I — II — Composed of ( a ) Thirty-two Farms on — Twenty-three Manors in Wilts and One Manor in Dorset — ( b ) Sixteen Farms on Thirteen Manors in — Norfolk and Suffolk — ( c ) Seventeen Farms on Thirteen Other Manors — Mainly in South and Midlands — III — Table XI — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER II THE REACTION OF THE AGRARIAN CHANGES ON THE PEASANTRY — (a) The Removing of Landmarks ToC — (b) The Struggle for the Commons ToC — (c) The Engrossing of Holdings and Displacement of Tenants ToC — In the West Felde — Table XII — (d) The Agrarian Changes and the Poor Law ToC — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER III THE QUESTION OF TENANT RIGHT — (a) The Tenants at Will and the Leaseholders ToC — (b) The Copyholders ToC [502] — Table XIII — I — Duration of Tenure — II — Character of Fines — (c) The Undermining of Customary Tenures ToC — Fines Paid on Three Manors in Northumberland [541] — Fines per Acre Paid on Six Manors [542] in Wilts and One in Somerset — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.PART III THE OUTCOME OF THE AGRARIAN REVOLUTION
15. 15.CHAPTER I THE AGRARIAN PROBLEM AND THE STATE — (a) The Political and Social Importance of the Peasantry ToC — (b) Legislation and Administration ToC — (c) Success and Failure of State Intervention ToC — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER II GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ToC
17. 17.APPENDIX I ToC — (I) — (II) — (III) — (IV) — (V) — (VI) — (VII) — (VIII)
18. 18.APPENDIX II ToC — Table I. (p. 25) — Table II. ( pp. 32 and 33) — Table III. ( p. 48) — Table IV. (pp. 64 and 65 ) — Table V ( p. 107 ) — Table VI. (p. 115–117 ) — Table VIII ( p. 212 ) — Tables IX, X , and XI (pp. 218 , 225–226 and 227 ) — Table XIII (p. 300 )
19. 19.GENERAL INDEX
20. 20.INDEX OF PERSONS

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