Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 Book

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction: Agrarian Fundamentalism and English Agricultural Development	1
Pt. I	The Rise of the Yeoman and the Landlords' Agricultural Revolution
2	Enclosure in the South Midlands	25
3	Enclosure and Depopulation	37
4	The Rise of the Yeoman	56
5	The Disappearance of the Yeoman in the Open Fields	78
Pt. II	Enclosure and Productivity Growth
6	The Adoption of Modern Methods	107
7	Yields and Output	130
8	Employment and Labour Productivity	150
9	Rent Increases and Overall Farm Efficiency	171
Pt. III	Capitalist Agriculture and Productivity Growth
10	Yeomen, Capitalist Farmers, and the Growth in Yields	191
11	Labour Shedding and the Growth in Productivity	211
Pt. IV	Agrarian Change and Industrialization
12	The Failure of Protoindustry and the Origins of the Surplus Labour Economy, 1676-1831	235
13	Agrarian Change and Economic Growth	263
Pt. V	The Distribution of the Benefits of Technical Progress
14	Who Gained from the Agricultural Revolution?	283
15	The Yeoman Alternative	303
	App. I: Regional Patterns of Peasant Land Tenure	312
	App. II: The Batchelor-Parkinson Farm Model	316
	App. III: Sources of Real Wages	320
	App. IV: Sources of Agricultural Output and Input Price Indices	327
	Bibliography	333
	Index	365