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Navigation, trade, and consumption in seventeenth century Oxfordshire
Description
"Navigation, Trade, and Consumption in Seventeenth Century Oxfordshire" investigates how the inhabitants of Oxfordshire transitioned from an agricultural to a consumer community during the Jacobean and post-Restoration eras. In agrarian England, this reconfigured landscape was most clearly embodied in the struggle over the access to available land. Focusing on the gentleman farmer's understanding of the fiscal benefits of enclosure and land acquisition, I argue that the growth in agricultural markets within Oxfordshire led to a growing prosperity, which was most clearly articulated in the community's rise as viable luxury goods consumers. By juxtaposing probate documents, inventories, pamphlets, and diaries from the market towns of Burford, Chipping Norton, and Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, this study examines the process by which these late sixteenth and early seventeenth century agricultural communities began to embrace the consumption of luxury goods, and, most importantly, purely market-based understanding of agrarian life.
Date Created
2013
Contributors
- O'Connell, Joseph (Author)
- Warnicke, Retha (Thesis advisor)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Economic History
- Agriculture--England--Oxfordshire--History--16th century.
- Agriculture
- Agriculture--England--Oxfordshire--History--17th century.
- Agriculture
- Consumption (Economics)--England--Oxfordshire--History--16th century.
- Consumption (Economics)
- Consumption (Economics)--England--Oxfordshire--History--17th century.
- Consumption (Economics)
Resource Type
Extent
v, 296 p. : col. ill
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.21021
Statement of Responsibility
by Joseph O'Connell
Description Source
Viewed on April 24, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2013
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-296)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Interdisciplinary studies
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