000			02531 a2200337 4500
001			1317391659
005			20250317111607.0
008			250312042015GB 24 eng
020			_a9781317391654
037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 44.99 _fBB
040			_a01
041			_aeng
072	7		_aN _2thema
072	7		_aNHD _2thema
072	7		_aNHTB _2thema
072	7		_a3M _2bisac
072	7		_aHBLH _2bic
072	7		_aHBJD1 _2bic
072	7		_aHBTB _2bic
072	7		_aHIS015000 _2bisac
072	7		_aHIS054000 _2bisac
072	7		_aHIS037030 _2bisac
072	7		_aHIS000000 _2bisac
072	7		_a333.3094209032 _2bisac
100	1		_aGeorge Yerby
245	1	0	_aEnglish Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change _bThe Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England
250			_a1
260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20150820
300			_a288 p
520			_bThis study brings a new perspective to a pivotal debate: the causes of the English Revolution. It pinpoints the economic motives behind the opposition to the crown, and shows their connection to the changing mind-set and political transitions of the time. Distinctively, it identifies the radicalism of the mercantile sphere, and the developing claim of "freedom of trade," the basis on which parliament challenged the king’s fiscal prerogative. Freedom of trade was associated with rights of consent, which were asserted as a guarantee of economic interests, and as a political principle. This informed the constitutional changes pushed through by parliament early in 1641, establishing freedom of trade by parliamentary control of the customs, and giving the assembly an automatic place at the center of affairs, the first requirement of representative government. Crucially, it was not the crown but parliament that appropriated the state interest, through an independent definition of national priorities. As England coalesced into a political and commercial unit, the open and communal patterns of medieval times were overlaid. The land itself came to be perceived and used in a different way. Freedom of trade had an agrarian aspect. An extended class of gentry and yeomanry occupied consolidated farms, displacing the smallholders from the common lands. With intensified marketing, the old moral restraints on trade and property died away. A more exploitative ethic undermined the balance of relationship with the land. The book makes an original connection between the English Revolution and the processes of environmental change.
999			_c4670 _d4670