|
|
|
Use this tool to learn about websites, specifically the one you just entered.
If you find some aspect of it inappropriate it is not our fault.
If you are the owner of this website: yes we are a real search engine, we do have a real web crawler called FyberSpider and you can block it if you feel the urge.
We are in the process of updating this tool. Until we are done just use our search results to check the inclusion status of your site.
Submit your site to major search engines within 48 hours.
Find out if your site has been cataloged by top search engines for only $8.99.
Below you will see site info taken directly from the URL you entered in real time. This is also known as our URL Breakdown tool and can be used independently of our site info tool.
Village
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page.
"The Village Labourer
1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill
by J.L. and Barbara Hammond
Originally published 1911
New Edition, 1920.
PREFACE
This edition differs from previous editions of The Village Labourer
in two respects. The original Chapter One has been omitted: this chapter
described the concentration of power in the hands of a small class, which
was the leading feature of our political development in the eighteenth century.
Secondly, the Appendices have been reduced, but the student who wishes to
pursue the subject of enclosure further will find, at the end of this volume,
full details of four important and representative enclosures.
In their preface to the edition published in 1913 the authors discussed
some of the controversies that had arisen on the topic of the enclosures.
It seems worth while to reproduce here the substance of that preface. Two
main criticisms have been passed on the treatment of enclosures in these
pages: the first, that the writers have drawn an unjust picture, because
they deliberately excluded the importance of enclosure in increasing the
food supplies of the nation; the second, that the hardships of the poor have
been exaggerated, and that, though the system of enclosure lent itself to
abuses, there was no evidence that wrong was done in the mass of enclosures.
The writers submit the following considerations: (1) It has been the accepted
view of all modern critics, with the single exception of dr Hasbach, that
the enclosures of this period, or at any rate the enclosures that took place
after 1795, made the soil of England immediately more productive. That this
is the usual view was stated in the text; its correctness was not discussed
or questioned. The subject of this volume is the fate of the Village Labourer,
and so far as he is concerned, the facts which they are accused of neglecting
suggest two reflections: (a) the feeding of Manchester "
....
read entire page
|
