The English Revolution and the roots of environmental change : the changing concept of the land in early modern England /

This study brings a new perspective to 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...

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Main Author: Yerby, George (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2016]
Series:Routledge research in early modern history.
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505 0 |a Introduction: The changing of the open, communal land into a national, commercial land, and the neglect of economic effects : is the environment history? -- Part one. The close of the universal world of medieval England -- The light touch of communalism on the land, and the openness of the medieval world -- The dismissal of the saints, and the disappearance of the universal Church -- The reordering of the physical and intellectual spheres -- "The exceeding lucre that they see grow" : higher profits, and a heightened sense of property -- Enclosure and consolidated holdings : the break-up of the communal system -- The basis of improvement -- The changing face of the land, and the "great bravery of building which marvellously beautified the realm" -- Part two. The consolidation of a political nation -- The definition of the state, and the developing structures of national administration -- The national expansion of the middling sort, and the relevance of the rise of the gentry -- "The authority of the whole realm" : parliamentary law as the first principle of representative rights, and national sovereignty -- Freedom of trade as a developing principle : the assertion of absolute property against prerogative impositions -- Parliament as a point of contact between the constituencies : the emergence of a freestanding national interest, and roots of English liberty -- The Elizabethan nation : "The envy of less happier lands" -- The foreign foreign policy of James I -- "A declaration of the state of the kingdom" : the national imperatives that necessitated automatic parliaments, and the triumph of freedom of trade -- The commercial landscape : "How wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land" -- Conclusion: The limits of the commercial land : is the environment history? 
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