Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited

Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain.

This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more firmly capitalist system of the eighteenth century. Th...