References
- Abbreviation:
- GV A General View of the Agriculture of the County of ...
- Archer , J. E. 1982 . ‘The Wells‐Charlesworth Debate: A Personal Comment on Arson in Norfolk and Suffolk’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 9 ( 4 )
- Bailey , John . 1810 . GV Durham London
- Bailey , John and Culley , G. 1805 . GV Northumberland and Cumberland London
- Batchelor , Thomas . 1813 . GV Bedford London
- Bear , William E. 1893 . A Study of Small Holdings , London : Cassell .
- Beckett , J.V. 1983 . ‘The Debate over Farm Sizes in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England’ . Agricultural History , 57 ( 3 )
- Beckett , J.V. 1984 . ‘The Peasant in England: A Case of Terminological Confusion?’ . Agricultural History Review , 32 ( Pt. 2 )
- Bernstein , Henry . 1979 . ‘African Peasantries: A Theoretical Framework’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 6 ( 4 )
- Billingsley , John . 1977 . GV Somerset Bath
- Boys , John . 1805 . GV Kent London
- Brown , Robert . 1799 . GV West Riding of Yorkshire Edinburgh
- Bushaway , Bob . 1982 . By Rite: Custom, Ceremony and Community in England 1700–1880 , London : Junction Books .
- Caird , James . 1967 . The Landed Interest and the Supply of Food , London : Frank Cass .
- Caird , James . 1968 . English Agriculture in 1850–51 , London : Frank Cass .
- Carter , Ian . 1975 . ‘Dorset, Kincardine and Peasant Crisis: A Comment on David Craig’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 2 ( 4 )
- Carter , Ian . 1979 . Farm Life in North‐East Scotland 1840–1914: The Poor Man's Country , Edinburgh : John Donald .
- Chambers , J. D. and Mingay , G. E. 1966 . The Agricultural Revolution 1750–1880 , London : Batsford .
- Charlesworth , Andrew . 1980 . ‘The Development of the English Rural Proletariat and Social Protest 1700–1850: A Comment’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 8 ( 1 )
- Charlesworth , Andrew . 1984 . ‘A Comparative Study of the Spread of the Agricultural Disturbances of 1816, 1822 and 1830 in England’ . Peasant Studies , 11 ( 2 )
- Chartres , J. A. 1981 . “ ‘Country Tradesmen’ ” . In The Victorian Countryside , Edited by: Mingay , G. E. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
- Chartres , J. A. and Turnbull , G. L. 1981 . “ ‘Country Craftsmen’ ” . In The Victorian Countryside , Edited by: Mingay , G.E. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
- Chevalier , Jacques . 1983 . ‘There is Nothing Simple about Simple Commodity Production’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 10 ( 4 )
- Chivers , Keith . 1983 . “ ‘The Supply of Horses in Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century’ ” . In Horses in European History: A Preliminary Canter , Edited by: Thompson , F. M. L. Reading : British Agricultural History Society .
- Clark , Christopher . 1978 . ‘The Household Mode of Production: A Comment’ . Radical History Review , Fall : 166 – 71 . 1978
- Clark , Christopher . 1979 . ‘Household Economy, Market Exchange and the Rise of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800–1860’ . Journal of Social History , 13 ( 2 ) : 169 – 89 .
- Craig , David . 1974 . ‘Novels of Peasant Crisis’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 2 ( 1 )
- Craig , David . 1975 . ‘Reply to Ian Carter’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 2 ( 4 )
- Crossick , Geoffrey . 1984 . “ ‘The Petite Bourgeoisie in Nineteenth‐Century Britain: The Urban and Liberal Case’ ” . In Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth‐Century Europe , Edited by: Crossick , Geoffrey and Haupt , Heinz‐Gerhard . London : Methuen .
- Dalton , George . 1974 . ‘Peasant Markets’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 1 ( 2 )
- Davis , Thomas . 1813 . GV Wiltshire London
- de Lavergne , Léonce . 1855 . The Rural Economy of England, Scotland and Ireland , London : Blackwood .
- Ennew , Judith , Hirst , Paul and Tribe , Keith . 1977 . ‘ “Peasantry” as an Economic Category’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 4 ( 4 )
- Franklin , S. H. 1965 . ‘Systems of Production: Systems of Appropriation’ . Pacific Viewpoint , 6 ( 2 )
- Franklin , S.H. 1969 . The European Peasantry: The Final Phase , London : Methuen .
- Friedman , Harriet . 1980 . ‘Household Production and the National Economy: Concepts for the Analysis of Agrarian Formations’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 7 ( 2 )
- Haggard , H. Rider . 1902 and 1906 . Rural England: Being an Account of Agricultural and Social Researches carried out in the years 1901 and 1902 , Vols. 1 and 2 , London : Longman .
- Hall , A. D. 1912 . A Pilgrimage of British Farming 1910–1912 London
- Hammond , J.L. and Barbara . 1948 . The Village Labourer , London : Guild Books .
- Henretta , James A. 1978 . ‘Families and Farms: “Mentalité” in Pre‐industrial America’ . The William and Mary Quarterly , 35 ( 1 ) : 3 – 32 . 3rd. series
- Henretta , James A. 1980 . ‘Reply to James T. Lemon’ . The William and Mary Quarterly , 37 : 696 – 700 . 3rd. series
- Hill , Christopher . 1942 . ‘Review of V. M. Lavrovsky, Parliamentary Enclosure of the Common Fields in England at the End of the 18th and Beginning of the 19th Century’ . Economic History Review , 12
- Hobsbawm , E. J. 1969 . Industry and Empire , Harmondsworth : Penguin .
- Hobsbawm , E. J. and Rude , George . 1973 . Captain Swing , Harmondsworth : Penguin .
- Holderness , B. A. 1972 . ‘Rural Tradesmen 1660–1850: A Regional Study in Lindsey’ . Lincolnshire History and Archaeology , 7
- Holderness , B. A. 1981 . “ ‘The Victorian Farmer’ ” . In The Victorian Countryside , Edited by: Mingay , G. E. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
- Holland , Henry . 1813 . GV Cheshire , London : Holt .
- John . 1969 . GV Lancashire , Newton Abbott : David & Charles .
- Horn , Pamela . 1980 . The Rural World 1780, 1850: Social Change in the English Countryside , London : Hutchinson .
- Horn , Pamela . 1982 . ‘An Eighteenth‐Century Land Agent: The Career of Nathaniel Kent (1737–1810)’ . Agricultural History Review , 30 ( Pt. 1 )
- Horn , Pamela . 1984 . The Changing Countryside in Victorian and Edwardian England and Wales , London : Athlone Press .
- Hoskins , W.G. 1957 . The Midland Peasant: The Economic and Social History of a Leicestershire Village , London : Macmillan .
- Howitt , William . 1840 . The Rural Life of England , London : Longman .
- Howkins , Alun . 1977 . ‘Structural Conflict and The Farmworker: Norfolk 1900–1920’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 4 ( 3 )
- Howkins , Alun . 1985 . Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk 1870–1920 , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
- Karsky , Barbara . 1983 . ‘Le Paysan Américain et la Terre a la fin du XVIlIe Siècle’ . Annales ESC , December : 1369 – 91 .
- Kerr , Barbara . 1968 . Bound to the Soil: A Social History of Dorset 1750–1918 , London : John Baker .
- Leeds , Anthony . 1977 . “ ‘Mythos and Pathos: Some Unpleasantries on Peasantries’ ” . In Peasant Livelihood: Studies in Economic Anthropology and Cultural Ecology , Edited by: Halperin , R. and Dow , J. New York : St. Martins Press .
- Lemon , James T. 1980 . ‘Comment on James A. Henretta's “Families and Farms: Mentalité in Pre‐industrial America"’ . The William and Mary Quarterly , 37 : 688 – 96 . 3rd. series
- Levy , Hermann . 1966 . Large and Small Holdings: A Study of English Agricultural Economics , London : Frank Cass .
- Littlejohn , Gary . 1977 . “ ‘Peasant Economy and Society’ ” . In Sociological Theories of the Economy , Edited by: Hindess , Barry . London : Macmillan .
- Lowe , Robert . 1813 . GV Nottingham London
- Marx , Karl . 1976 . Capital Vol. I , Harmondsworth : Penguin .
- Mavor , William . 1809 . GV Berkshire London
- Merrill , Michael . 1977 . ‘Cash is Good to Eat: Self‐Sufficiency and Exchange in the Rural Economy of the United States’ . Radical History Review , : 42 – 71 .
- Merrill , Michael . 1979–80 . ‘So what's wrong with the “Household Mode of Production"?’ . Radical History Review , : 141 – 6 .
- Mills , Dennis R. 1974 . ‘The Peasant Tradition’ . The Local Historian , 11
- Mills , Dennis R. 1980 . Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth‐Century Britain , London : Croom Helm .
- Mills , Dennis R. and Short , Brian . 1983 . ‘Social Change and Social Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century England: The Case of the Open‐Closed Village Model’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 10 ( 4 )
- Mingay , G.E. 1963 . English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century , London : Routledge & Kegan Paul .
- Obelkevich , James . 1976 . Religion and Rural Society: South Lindsey 1825–1875 , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
- Parkinson , Richard . 1808 . GV Rutland London
- Pitt , William . 1808 . GV Stafford London
- Pitt , William . 1809 . GV Leicestershire London
- Priest , Rev. St. John . 1813 . GV Buckinghamshire London
- Pringle , A. 1805 . GV Westmoreland London
- Pruitt , Bettye Hobbs . 1984 . ‘Self‐Sufficiency and the Agricultural Economy of Eighteenth‐Century Massachusetts’ . The William and Mary Quarterly , 41 ( 3 ) : 333 – 64 . 3rd. series
- Rae , John . 1883 . ‘Why Have the Yeomanry Perished?’ . Contemporary Review , 44
- Reed , Mick . 1984a . ‘Social Change and Social Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century England: A Comment’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 12 ( 1 )
- Reed , Mick . 1984b . ‘The Peasantry of Nineteenth‐Century England: A Neglected Class?’ . History Workshop ,
- Saville , John . 1969 . ‘Primitive Accumulation and Early Industrialisation in Britain’ . Socialist Register ,
- Shammas , Carole . 1982 . ‘How Self‐Sufficient was Early America?’ . Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 13 ( 2 ) : 247 – 72 .
- Shanin , Teodor . 1979 . ‘Defining Peasants: Conceptualizations and De‐conceptualizations Old and New in a Marxist Debate’ . Peasant Studies , 8 ( 4 ) : 38 – 60 .
- Stevenson , William . 1813 . GV Surrey London
- Thirsk , Joan . 1975 . ‘The Peasant Economy of England in the Seventeenth Century’ . Studia Oeconomicae , 10
- Thompson , E. P. 1967 . ‘Land of our Fathers’ . Times Literary Supplement , 16 Feb.
- Thompson , F. M.L. 1976 . ‘A Terminological Confusion Confounded’ . Economic History Review , 24 2nd. series
- Thorner , Daniel . 1971 . “ ‘Peasant Economy as a Category in Economic History’ ” . In Peasants and Peasant Societies , Edited by: Shanin , T. Harmondsworth : Penguin .
- Tilly , Charles . 1982 . ‘Proletarianization and Rural Collective Action in East Anglia and Elsewhere, 1500–1900’ . Peasant Studies , 10 ( 1 )
- Tuke , John . 1800 . GV North Riding of Yorkshire London
- Vancouver , Charles . 1813a . GV Devon London
- Vancouver , Charles . 1813b . GV Hampshire London
- Wells , Roger A. E. 1979 . ‘The Development of the English Rural Proletariat and Social Protest 1700–1850’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 6 ( 2 )
- Wells , Roger A. E. 1981 . ‘Social Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside in the Early Nineteenth‐Century: A Rejoinder’ . Journal of Peasant Studies , 8 ( 4 )
- Wessman , James W. 1979–80 . ‘A Household Mode of Production: Another Comment’ . Radical History Review , : 129 – 39 .
- Wolf , Eric R. 1966 . Peasants , Englewood Cliffs , NJ : Prentice Hall .
- Williams , Raymond and Merryn . 1980 . “ ‘Hardy and Social Class’ ” . In Thomas Hardy: The Writer and his Background , Edited by: Page , Norman . London : Bell & Hyman .
- Worgan , G.B. 1815 . GV Cornwall London
- Young , Arthur . 1813 . GV Essex London
- Young , Arthur . 1969a . GV Norfolk , Newton Abbott : David & Charles .
- Young , Arthur . 1969b . GV Oxfordshire , Newton Abbott : David & Charles .
- Young , Arthur . 1969c . GV Suffolk , Newton Abbott : David & Charles .
- Young , Arthur . 1970a . GV Lincolnshire , Newton Abbott : David & Charles .
- Young , Rev. Arthur . 1970b . GV Sussex , Newton Abbott : David & Charles .
- School of Cultural and Community Studies, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, Sussex. Versions of this article were presented to the ‘Peasants’ seminar, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and to the AFRAS and Social Anthropology seminars at the University of Sussex. I am grateful to the conveners and participants of these groups for valuable comments and suggestions. Especially, 1 thank Terry Byres and Henry Bernstein for extensive and constructive criticisms of an earlier draft.