LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jane whittle

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  • Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe
    Jane Whittle
    Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many economic historians have assumed that labour in Western Europe was ’free’ after the end of serfdom in the fifteenth century. These assumptions are increasingly being questioned and labour laws have been identified as creating sig...
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    32,87 €

  • Servants in Rural Europe
    Jane Whittle
    This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before marriage. Servants tended to be employed for long periods, several month...
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    32,78 €

  • Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
    Jane Whittle
    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 eigh...
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    26,50 €