The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

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The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century is a seminal historical study by R. H. Tawney analyzing landownership, enclosure, and social change in Tudor England.

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instanceOf book
historical study
academicDiscipline economic history
history
social history
author R. H. Tawney
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
examines changes in land tenure
economic pressures on smallholders
impact of enclosure on rural society
role of the state in agrarian change
transition from feudal to capitalist relations in the countryside
focusesOn English agrarian structure
copyholders
enclosure movement
landed gentry
rural social conflict
tenant farmers
genre economic history
social history
hasContribution linked agrarian change to broader social and economic transformation in Tudor England
hasPerspective Marxian-influenced economic analysis
class-based interpretation of social change
historicalPeriodAnalyzed Tudor England
surface form: Tudor period
influenced historiography of Tudor England
social history of early modern England
studies of English agrarian history
language English
mainSubject Tudor England
agrarian history
enclosure
landownership
social change
notableFor detailed study of enclosure
influence on later debates about capitalism in England
systematic use of economic data in historical analysis
partOf early 20th-century British social history tradition
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1912
publisher Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
surface form: Longmans, Green and Co.
relatedWork Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
setIn England
temporalCoverage 16th century
timeFocus Council of Regency for Edward VI
surface form: reign of Edward VI

reign of Elizabeth I
reign of Henry VIII

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