J.P.Sommerville

 

XI: ECONOMIC HISTORY: AGRICULTURE AND POPULATION

 

Q: 'How revolutionary were the agricultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?'

 

Introductions

  1. DC Coleman, The economy of England 1450-1700
  2. JD Chambers, Population, economy, and society in pre-industrial England
  3. Christopher Dyer, An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages OUP 2005
  4. MJ Daunton, Progress and Poverty. An Economic and Social History of Britain 1700-1850

 

Agriculture

  1. J Thirsk, The Agrarian history of England and Wales, vol.4
  2. E Kerridge, Agrarian problems in the sixteenth century
  3. RH Tawney, The Agrarian problem in the sixteenth century
  4. RC Allen, Enclosure and the Yeoman: the Agricultural Development of the South Midlands 1450-1850.
  5. EM Leonard, The inclosure of common fields in the seventeenth century
  6. I Blanchard, 'Population Change, Enclosure and the Early Tudor Economy,’ Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 23 (1970), 427-45.
  7. J Thirsk, English peasant farming
  8. WG Hoskins, The midland peasant
  9. WE Minchinton, ed., Essays in agrarian history
  10. EL Jones 'Agricultural origins of industry', Past & Present 1968

 

Population and prices

  1. AB Appleby, 'Disease or famine? Mortality in Cumberland and Westmorland, 1580-1640', Economic History Review 1973
  2. AB Appleby, Famine in Tudor and Stuart England
  3. WH Beveridge et al., Prices and wages in England from the twelfth to the nineteenth century, vol.1, 1939
  4. CJ Harrison 'Grain price analysis and harvest qualities, 1465-1634' Agricultural History Review 1971
  5. WG Hoskins 'Harvest fluctuations and English economic history', Agricultural History Review 1964 and 1968
  6. EH Phelps-Brown and SV Hopkins, 'Seven centuries of the prices of consumables compared with builders' wage-rates', Economica 1955 (standard tables of prices and wages; reprinted in EM Carus-Wilson, ed., Essays in Economic History
  7. WE Minchinton, ed., Wage regulation in pre-industrial England
  8. Boulton, Jeremy, 'Food prices and the standard of living in London in the 'century of revolution', 1580-1700 The Economic History Review 53 (2000)
  9. Hinde, Andrew, England's Population.
  10. Wrigley, EA, and Schofield, RS, The Population History of England 1541-1871, 1981.

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