Contents 
Apologies and acknowledgements 
Abbreviations and conventions 
List of abbreviated titles 
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Introduction 
| The nature of a peasant society 
2 When England ceased to be a peasant society: Marx, Weber 
and the historians 
3 English economy and society in the 
seventeenth centuries 
4 Ownership in England from 1350 to 1750 
5 Ownership in England from 1200 to 1349 
6 English economy and society in the thirteenth to fifteenth 
centuries 
7 England in perspective 
8 Some implications 
Postscript 
List of manuscript sources 
Index 
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