The disappearance of the small landowner
1909, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good ex-library copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Book plates and inscriptions to front pastedown endpaper. Light pencil annotations throughout. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #463280
Physical description; 164 pages, illustrations, folding maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; I. England and France compared. Influence of land laws. -- II. The great plague and its results. -- III. The enclosures of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. -- IV. Other causes affecting the position of the landowning classes. -- V. The enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their results. -- VI. Economical and other causes of decline of the small landowner in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. -- VII. Evidences as to exact dates when the small landowner declined. -- VIII. Comparison between England and other countries. Subjects; Land tenure Great Britain. Agriculture England. Agriculture Economic aspects. Land tenure. Agriculture Economic aspects England. Inclosures England. Land tenure England. Agriculture Economic aspects England.
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