The economic causes of the English Civil War : freedom of trade and the English revolution / George Yerby.
This is a coordinated presentation of the economic basis of revolutionary change in 16th- and early-17th century England, addressing a crucial but neglected phase of historical development. It traces a transformation in the agrarian economy and substantiates the decisive scale on which this took pla...
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Recovering the Economic Context of History 1. The Basis of Change: The Early Breach of the Manorial Stasis in England; the Coming of the Commercial Yeoman Farmer; and the Increase of Opportunity "The Exceeding Lucre They See Grow" 2. Dynamics of Change: The New Shape of Interregional Trading; the Mutual Benefits of Specialisation and Exchange; and the Growth of a National Land Market 3. The Structures of Change: The Displacement of the Open Patterns of Occupation on the Common Lands; the Timing and Effects of Enclosure; the Significance of Consolidation Without Enclosure 4. New Patterns of Work: From Smallholders to Wage Labourers; and the Role of Industrial Activity in Undermining the Commons 5. The Higher Profile of Architectural Form 6. A Changing Ethos: From Conditional to Absolute Property; the Rise of Individualism and a Self-Sustaining Market; and the Growing Demand for a Right of Freedom of Trade from Arbitrary Restraints 7. Economic Roots of Political Change: The Merchant-Gentry Alliance Against Prerogative Customs Dues; the Central, Long-Term Challenge to the Crown "To Have a Certainty" 8. New Definitions of Good Government: "Parliament" versus "Patent"; the Opposition to Monopolies; Freedom of Trade as the Economic Policy of the Commons; and the Unsatisfied Demand for Parliamentary Legislation 9. Economic Aims of Parliament's Foreign Policy: Elizabeth I as the Embodiment of the National Enterprise; the Dynastic Preference of James I for the National Enemy 10. The Religious War of Charles I Against His Scottish Kingdom; and the People of England "Left Now Only to Expect an Opportunity" 11. The First Revolutionary Measure of the Long Parliament: The Triennial Act of February 1641--a "Course as May Not Be Eluded"; and the Relevance of the Rise of the Gentry 12. The Triumph of Freedom of Trade: The Throwing Down of Monopolies; and the Ending of Prerogative Customs Dues 13. The Support of the Middle Sort: Parliament's Broad Base of Allegiance Among the Substantial Freeholders and the Merchants and Traders in the Commercial Centres--"Which Said Order Is Remaining in the Town Chest" 14. Commercial, Political and Religious Connections in Parliament's West Nottinghamshire Heartland: "To Know a Law and Have a Certainty" 15. A Middle Sort of Aristocracy: William Pierrepont and the Course of the English Revolution 16. The Socio-Economic Limits of the Revolution: Parliament, the People and the Poor; and on Whose Side Were the Levellers? 17. The Economy of the State: The First Fully Capitalist Society Appendix: Civil War Allegiances in Nottinghamshire.