Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600-1850 (2014)Hardcover - 2014, 2 July 2014

This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.