Joan Thirsk

Economic policy and projects : the development of a consumer society in early modern England

The constructive phase of projects 1540-1580 the scandalous phase, part I 1580-1601 the scandalous phase, part II 1601-1624 the quality of goods and the quality of clients projects and political economy. Appendices: 1 - foreign wares imported into London in 1559 and 1564-1565 2 - miscellaneous goods exported from London, Michaelmas 1662 to Michaelmas 1663.

The English Rural Landscape

List of Colour Plates, List of Maps, Notes to Contributors. Joan Thirsk: Introduction. 1: Joe Bettey: The Downlands. 2: The Wolds. Harold Fox: The Wolds: Before about 1500. Bernard Jennings: The Wolds: A Longer View. 3: Joan Thirsk, Christopher Dyer, and David Hey: Lowland Vales. 4: Christopher Dyer: Woodlands and Woodpasture in Western England. 5: Brian Short: Forests and Woodpasture in Lowland England. 6: Anne Reeves and Tom Williamson: Marshes. 7: Christopher Taylor: Fenlands. 8: David Hey: Moorlands. 9: Alan Everitt: Common Land. 10: Charles Phythian-Adams: Frontier Valleys. CAMEOS OF LANDSCAPE. 11: Leslie W. Hepple and Alison M. Doggett: Stonor: A Chilterns Landscape. 12: Kate Tiller: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire: An Open Village. 13: Margaret Spufford: Eccleshall, Staffordshire: A Bishops Estate of Dairymen, Dairy Wives, and the Poor. 14: Barry Harrison: Staintondale, North Yorkshire: A Moorland Estate of the Knights Hospitaller. 15: Pamela Dearlove: Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: An Estate of the Land Settlement Association. Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

The rural economy of England : collected essays

No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point the way for future research. The subjects of this collection include the origin and nature of the common fields, Tudor enclosures, the Commonwealth confiscation of Royalist land and its subsequent return after the Restoration, inheritance customs, and the role of industries in the rural economy, among them stocking knitting.

The explanation of ideology. Family structures and social systems

(1988). The explanation of ideology. Family structures and social systems. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 725-727.

Consuming Splendour: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England Linda Levy Peck

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Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800.

Introduction Jack Goody 1. Inheritance, property and women: some comparative considerations Jack Goody 2. Family structures and inheritance customs in sixteenth century France Emmanuel Le Roy Laudrie 3. Inheritance, land tenure and peasant family structure: a German regional comparison Lutz K. Berkner 4. Aspects of kinship behaviours and property in rural Western Europe before 1800 David Sabean 5. Peasant inheritance customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700 Cicley Howell 6. Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margaret Spufford 7. The European debate on customs of inheritance, 1500-1700 Jan Thirsk 8. Patterns of inheritance and settlement by great landowners from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries J. P. Cooper 9. The grid of inheritance: a comment E. P. Thompson 10. Private property in history V. G. Kieran Glossary Index.

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800

Introduction Jack Goody 1. Inheritance, property and women: some comparative considerations Jack Goody 2. Family structures and inheritance customs in sixteenth century France Emmanuel Le Roy Laudrie 3. Inheritance, land tenure and peasant family structure: a German regional comparison Lutz K. Berkner 4. Aspects of kinship behaviours and property in rural Western Europe before 1800 David Sabean 5. Peasant inheritance customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700 Cicley Howell 6. Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margaret Spufford 7. The European debate on customs of inheritance, 1500-1700 Jan Thirsk 8. Patterns of inheritance and settlement by great landowners from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries J. P. Cooper 9. The grid of inheritance: a comment E. P. Thompson 10. Private property in history V. G. Kieran Glossary Index.