Lecture 2
LECTURE 2 - THE RICH AND THE LAND
1. Agricultural Revolution
Capitalist tenant farmers and landless rural labourers
2. The Brenner debate on the transition from feudalism to
capitalism
J.P. Cooper
Land as a factor of production
3. Land and power
4. Concentration and Consolidation
The Habakkuk Thesis 1680-1780
a. expropriation
b. less favourable conditions
c. encroachment on common rights
5. 1688-1715
6. Chronology of enclosure
7. Land inheritance
primogeniture
entail
strict settlement
8. Aristocracy
inclusion and exclusion
9. Ideology
10. Politics