Working from manor surveys and court records, Tawney examines the English peasantry on the eve of the Tudor upheavals, the rise of a commercial agriculture with its enclosures and sheep-runs, the battles over tenant right, and the attempts of the Tudor state to check the eviction of small landholders.
His first major book, published in 1912, by the author of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Download the free EPUB.