| Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England Contributor(s): Kussmaul, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521071593 ISBN-13: 9780521071598 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $43.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: This book explores servants in husbandry and considers the wider historiographical implications. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 305.56 |
| Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Servants in husbandry were unmarried farm workers hired on annual contracts. The institution of service distinguished them in many ways from their chief competitors, day-labourers. Servants were employed on an annual basis; they formed part of their employers' households; they were generally young and unmarried. Service was extremely common - most rural youths in early modern England became servants to farmers, and they composed as much as half of the full-time hired labour force in agriculture. Professor Kussmaul has marshalled information from sources as diverse as marriage registers, militia lists, parish censuses, settlement examinations, account books, records of Quarter Sessions, and the autobiographies of servants and masters, in producing this book which explores this important institution and to consider its wide historiographical implications. |