The Common-Field Village of Midland England

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Goodacre, John
Conference:	Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons
Location:	Cheltenham, England
Conf. Date:	July 14-18, 2008
Date:	2008
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/533
Sector:	Agriculture
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	enclosure agricultural development agrarian reform
Abstract:	"The enclosure of the open fields farmed in common in the Midlands of England was accomplished in several stages. The enclosures of the seventeenth century were a turning point in the development of capitalist production. Paradoxically this was a triumph for open-field farming. "This paper is based on an analysis of the local agrarian economy and illustrated from the writings of two contemporary protagonists in the national debate on development."

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