The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century

Richard Henry Tawney

When landlords began enclosing the fields, England's peasantry faced ruin. R. H. Tawney's landmark study anatomizes the sixteenth-century countryside: the classes of landholders, the freeholders, and the customary tenants whose old rights were slipping away. A foundational work of economic history, rich with tables and hard evidence. Understand the crisis that made modern England.