Volume Lxxx] [number 2

Whole Number 186

THE ENCLOSURES IN ENGLAND AN ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION

BY HARRIETT BRADLEY, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Economics, Vassar College Sometime University Fellow in Economics

New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., AGENTS LONDON: P.S. KING & SON, LTD. 1918

"It fareth with the earth as with other creatures that through continual labour grow faint and feeble-hearted." From speech made in the House of Commons, 1597

To EMILIE LOUISE WELLS

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 11 The subject of inquiry--No attempt hitherto made to verify the different hypothetical explanations of the enclosures--Nature of the evidence.