2. The English Enclosures

The devastating enclosures of the English commons forced peasants into the labor market and the factories of the industrial revolution. This video explains how and why.

The next video in the series, The Invention of the Author, explains how the romantic movement was influenced by the enclosures.

This is a follow-up to my Tragedy of the Commons video.

Recommended reading:

Lewis Hyde, Commons as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

J. M. Neeson., Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820

Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• commons
• economics
• history
• England
• 18th century

[NexusMediaForum]

Fantastic thanks

[Kraze82]

We watched this in our university class.

[MATT112397]

very informative

[GunsAndHorsesx]

Thank you, I am 13 and in year 9. I had towrite an essay on enclosure, i didn't understand it fully but now thanks to this video I do, I am going to tell my history teacher about this. it was really helpful

Thanks Again :)