George Yerby

The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change (eBook, ePUB)

The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

This study clarifies the agrarian and commercial motives behind the English Revolution, showing their connection to parliament's constitutional changes of early 1641, when it challenged the crown at the center of the state. Commercialization was associated with a new system of beliefs, and a more exploitative way of using the land, which affected the balance of relationship with the natural environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317391647
• Artikelnr.: 43678802

Autorenporträt

George Yerby took his degree at Birkbeck College, London University in 1986, and has since worked as an historical researcher. He specializes in the economic and political history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is author of People and Parliament: Representative Rights and the English Revolution, published in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Changing of the Open, Communal Land into a National,
Commercial Land, and the Neglect of Economic Effects: Is the Environment
History? Part One: The Close of the Universal World of Medieval England 1.
The Light Touch of Communalism on the Land, and the Openness of the
Medieval World 2. The Dismissal of the Saints, and the Disappearance of the
Universal Church 3. The Reordering of the Physical and Intellectual Spheres
4. "The Exceeding Lucre That They See Grow": Higher Profits, and a
Heightened Sense of Property 5. Enclosure and Consolidated Holdings: The
Break-up of the Communal System 6. The Basis of Improvement 7. The Changing
Face of the Land, and the "Great Bravery of Building which Marvellously
Beautified the Realm" Part Two: The Consolidation of a Political Nation 8.
The Definition of the State, and the Developing Structures of National
Administration 9. The National Expansion of the Middling Sort, and the
Relevance of the Rise of the Gentry 10. "The Authority of the Whole Realm":
Parliamentary Law as the First Principle of Representative Rights, and
National Sovereignty 11. Freedom of Trade as a Developing Principle: The
Assertion of Absolute Property Against Prerogative Impositions 12.
Parliament as a Point of Contact Between the Constituencies: The Emergence
of a Freestanding National Interest, and Roots of English Liberty 13. The
Elizabethan Nation: "The Envy of Less Happier Lands" 14. The Foreign
Foreign Policy of James I 15. "A Declaration of the State of the Kingdom":
The National Imperatives that Necessitated Automatic Parliaments, and the
Triumph of Freedom of Trade 16. The Commercial Landscape: "How Wide the
Limits Stand Between a Splendid and a Happy Land." Conclusion: The Limits
of the Commercial Land: Is the Environment History?