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The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how its social organisation developed in the period before we have extensive documentary evidence for the use of space within the house. Nat Alcock and Dan Miles' work on Medieval Peasant Houses in Midland England has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.
Challenging the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization, this text shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages. Their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted a pervasive sense of loss.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
In Ashby-de-la-Zouch the seventeenth century was a period of dramatic change. At the beginning of the century this small market town prospered as the Earls of Huntingdon, lords of the manor, played an active part in national politics and entertained Kings at their family home of Ashby castle. During the Civil War this castle became a Royalist stronghold and was besieged for sixteen months. After the war the victorious Parliamentarians ensured that the castle was made uninhabitable. When the monarchy was restored in 1660, the Earls of Huntingdon moved away to Castle Donington. "ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH - Seventeenth century life in a small market town" looks at the effect of national events on ordinary townspeople. The author was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on social and economic conditions in Ashby during this period. This book is a condensed and updated version of this thesis.
This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ultimately concerned with explaining economic development so much as exploring why modes of development produced different political forms that managed the transition to industrialism and modernization. Why did one society modernize into a "relatively free," democratic society (by which Moore means England)? Why did others metamorphose into fascist or communist states? His core thesis is that in each country, the relationship between the landlord class and the peasants was a primary influence on the ultimate form of government the society arrived at upon arrival in its modern age. “Throughout the book, there is the constant play of a mind that is scholarly, original, and imbued with the rarest gift of all, a deep sense of human reality . . . This book will influence a whole generation of young American historians and lead them to problems of the greatest significance.” —The New York Review of Books