Peasant Petitions : Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600-1850
ISBN: 9781137394095
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: History;

This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Robert Allan Houston is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews, UK. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Andrews University before spending six years at Cambridge University, UK, as a research student (Peterhouse) and research fellow (Clare College).

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