Searching Google Scholar for sources that cite the Hammonds turns up 200 articles including this 1982 article: "THE EFFICIENCY AND DISTRIBUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENCLOSURES," by Robert C. Allen, The Economic Journal, [December 1982), 937-953.
Again, searching for articles that cite Allen's article produces another 132 articles. http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cites=2682305908797385855&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:32 AM, William Quimby <[email protected]> wrote: > Answers to some of your question (1) might be found in John and Barbara > Hammond's "The Village Labourer 1760-1832", > published in 1911. See especially the chapters The Village Before > Enclosure, The Village After Enclosure, and the footnote > suggestions to government reports. [In my very skimpy scanning I did see > the suggestion that rural population growth was > very slow at the time, preventing exhaustion of natural resources.] > > A downloadable pdf (not terribly easy to read, though) can be found on the > Internet Archive at > > <http://archive.org/details/cu31924032427019><http://archive.org/details/cu31924032427019> > > - Bill > > > > On 05/19/2013 4:24 AM, Gar Lipow wrote: > > I'm interested in two related question on UK enclosure of the > > commons. > > > > 1) How well were the commons managed prior to enclosure? Was the > > grazing land being exhausted or was it preserved through limitations > > on use? What about forest a nd woods and wood lots used as sources > > of firewood? Was firewood harvested from the same woods generation > > after generation, or were the wood lots being exhausted? What are > > the best sources on this? Is there controversy or is the story I > > hear that the commons were successful in preserving resources across > > generations widely agreed on? > > > > 2) After enclosure to what extent was grazing land maintained and to > > what extent exhausted? And (for my purposes, more imortantly) to > > what extent were wooded areas that had been preserved as sources of > > fuel for generations exhausted, sometimes just for the wood, > > sometimes to expand grazing land to raise more sheep and cattle? > > > > What are the most rigorous works that answer these question?. If > > there is a serious controversy, what are the best works on both > > sides? I > > > > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis > > web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: > > http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: > > http://www.nohairshirts.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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