The Economic Causes of the English Civil War: Freedom of Trade and the English Revolution

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George Yerby

The Economic Causes of the English Civil War

Freedom of Trade and the English Revolution

George Yerby

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Routledge
13 December 2021

British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; English Civil War; Economic history

Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History

This is a coordinated presentation of the economic basis of revolutionary change in 16th- and early-17th century England, addressing a crucial but neglected phase of historical development. It traces a transformation in the agrarian economy and substantiates the decisive scale on which this took place, showing how the new forms of occupation and practice on the land related to seminal changes in the general dynamics of commercial activity. An integrated, self-regulating national market generated new imperatives, particularly a demand for a right of freedom of trade from arbitrary exactions and restraints. This took political force through the special status that rights of consent had acquired in England, based on the rise of sovereign representative law following the Break with Rome. These associations were reflected in a distinctive merchant-gentry alliance, seeking to establish freedom of trade and representative control of public finance, through parliament. This produced a persistent challenge to royal prerogatives such as impositions from 1610 onwards. Parliamentary provision, especially legislation, came to be seen as essential to good government. These ambitions led to the first revolutionary measures of the Long Parliament in early 1641, establishing automatic parliaments and the normative force of freedom of trade.

By: George Yerby
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032240466
ISBN 10: 1032240466
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 13 December 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

George Yerby took his degree at Birkbeck College, London University in 1986, and has since worked as an historical researcher. He specialises in the economic and political history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is the author of People and Parliament: Representative Rights and the English Revolution, published in 2008, and The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change, published in 2016.