Jane Whittle's examination of rural England in the 15th and 16th centuries asks how capitalist it was, and how and why it changed over 150 years. She relates id... » 

Jane Whittle's examination of rural England in the 15th and 16th centuries asks how capitalist it was, and how and why it changed over 150 years. She relates ideas of peasant society and capitalism to a local study of north-east Norfolk, one of the crucibles of the agrarian revolution. «