num_pages: 396
description: This is a paperback edition of one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.
language: English
title: Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820
titlecomplete: Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700–1820 (Past and Present Publications)
genres: History
ratings_count: 19
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Whitfield Prize
publisher: Cambridge University Press