The career of Sir John Habakkuk as socio-economic historian - as well as Oxford University don and Vice Chancellor and as President of the Royal Historical Society - began in the 1930s. The book under review constitutes therefore a summing up of many decades of research amidst an immense quarry of estate and legal records, the publications of local record societies, and the articles and monographs of fellow historians. It also constitutes a vast amplification of, and elaboration on, the 1985 Ford Lectures at Oxford. The result is a somewhat unwieldy monument to inductive ...
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