Essays in the Economic and Social History of Tudor and Stuart England

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F. J. Fisher
Cambridge University Press, 2006 M04 20 - 248 pages
This celebrated collection of essays was first published in 1961 to mark the 80th birthday of the great historian and social reformer R. H. Tawney. The list of contributors contains several of the most English distinguished historians of the post-war period, including Lawrence Stone, Christopher Hill, Joan Thirsk, Gerald Aylmer and Donald Coleman, and many of the essays in this volume have since assumed classic status. The collection opens with F. J. Fisher's celebrated overview of 'Tawney's Century', defined as that period which separates the Dissolution of the Monasteries of the 1530s from the Great Rebellion of the 1640s.
 

Contents

Protestantism and the Rise of Capitalism
15
The Debate on Enclosure
40
Industries in the Countryside
70
The Case of Robert Cecil First Earl
89
England and the Mediterranean 15701670
117
Charles I and the City
138
The Officers of the Exchequer 162542
164
The Accounts of the Kingdom 164249
182
an Essay on Government Borrowing
204
Index
231
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