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Routledge The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change: The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)

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This study brings a new perspective to a pivotal debate: the causes of the English Revolution. It pinpoints the economic motives behind the opposition to the crown, and shows their connection to the changing mind-set and political transitions of the time. Distinctively, it identifies the radicalism of the mercantile sphere, and the developing claim of "freedom of trade," the basis on which parliament challenged the king’s fiscal prerogative. Freedom of trade was associated with rights of consent, which were asserted as a guarantee of economic interests, and as a political principle. This informed the constitutional changes pushed through by parliament early in 1641, establishing freedom of trade by parliamentary control of the customs, and giving the assembly an automatic place at the center of affairs, the first requirement of representative government. Crucially, it was not the crown but parliament that appropriated the state interest, through an independent definition of national priorities. As England coalesced into a political and commercial unit, the open and communal patterns of medieval times were overlaid. The land itself came to be perceived and used in a different way. Freedom of trade had an agrarian aspect. An extended class of gentry and yeomanry occupied consolidated farms, displacing the smallholders from the common lands. With intensified marketing, the old moral restraints on trade and property died away. A more exploitative ethic undermined the balance of relationship with the land. The book makes an original connection between the English Revolution and the processes of environmental change. Review "This is an important and in one respect highly original work. It will make a significant contribution to the debates on the English Revolution and the transition to capitalism. What is particularly impressive here is the way Yerby establishes connections between issues that are usually treated separately from the core themes, such as the effect of the Reformation on individual perceptions of the landscape, or how the concept of "the nation" went from being a merely territorial concept to one embodying a new political idea." - Neil Davidson, University of Glasgow "Yerby has written a complex, insightful, and challenging book. His major premise is that 16th/17th-century England experienced a change from a communal relationship with the land to one of personal ownership and the individual right to manipulate and exploit the land. This led to increased wealth, a widening gap between rich and poor, ultimately to the Industrial Revolution, and through this unbalanced relationship with the land, to the destruction of the environment today through the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere." Summing Up: Highly recommended - J. J. Butt, James Madison University, CHOICE Reviews "George Yerby expertly chronicles the transformation of England's economic, social, political and religious life from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. In doing so, he renews an older historiographical tradition that stresses the economic causes of political change." - Borden Painter, Trinity College, UK About the Author George Yerby took his degree at Birkbeck College, London University in 1986, and has since worked as an historical researcher. He specializes in the economic and political history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is author of People and Parliament: Representative Rights and the English Revolution, published in 2008.

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Brand: Routledge
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ASIN: 1138933430
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories
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Release Date: 01 September 2015
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