Peasant Petitions: Social Relations And Economic Life On Landed Estates, 1600-1850

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.

• • Author: R. Houston
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jul 02, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 331 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137394080
• • ISBN-13: 9781137394088