Author: J. M. Neeson
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Commoners is a social history of the smallest landholders and landless users of commons in England in the years 1700-1820. It looks at who had common right, and how it was defended. Professor Neeson defines such commoners as the last of the English peasantry and argues against the revisionist view that such people were either too few or too poor to constitute a significant sector of the rural population of eighteenth-century England, and reasserts powerfully the transformative impact of the enclosure process for social relations.
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