“between 1725 and 1825 nearly four thousand enclosure acts appropriated more than six million acres of land, about a quarter of cultivated acreage, to the politically dominant landowners. . . . It got rid of open-field villages and common rights and contributed to the late eighteenth century’s crisis of poverty.”
“between 1725 and 1825 nearly four thousand enclosure acts appropriated more than six million acres of land, about a quarter of cultivated acreage, to the politically dominant landowners. . . . It got rid of open-field villages and common rights and contributed to the late eighteenth century’s crisis of poverty.”
