A Social History of EnglandCarries the reader from prehistoric times to the 1980s, and incorporates the research findings of recent years about the society, politics, demography and economic life of the English people. |
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Page 56
... village population . These complexities were accentuated by the fact that rural England was divided into both villages ( or hamlets ) and manors , the latter a basic economic unit like the factory of modern times , and that they did not ...
... village population . These complexities were accentuated by the fact that rural England was divided into both villages ( or hamlets ) and manors , the latter a basic economic unit like the factory of modern times , and that they did not ...
Page 66
... villages . Wherever there was a village , however , it was taken for granted that the individual's interests would in certain respects be subordinated to those of the community . The village , again like the town , was not simply a ...
... villages . Wherever there was a village , however , it was taken for granted that the individual's interests would in certain respects be subordinated to those of the community . The village , again like the town , was not simply a ...
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... village community long before eighteenth - century enclosure and deserted villages long before Oliver Goldsmith wrote about them . But there was now a sense of crisis . Thus , the village of Wigston Magna in Leicestershire , the ...
... village community long before eighteenth - century enclosure and deserted villages long before Oliver Goldsmith wrote about them . But there was now a sense of crisis . Thus , the village of Wigston Magna in Leicestershire , the ...
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Preface | 11 |
2 | 20 |
INVASION RESISTANCE SETTLEMENT AND CONQUEST | 26 |
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