
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, most of the English common lands were enclosed--taken, by force, out of the hands of local collective use and privatized. The resistance to capitalism's "primitive accumulation," registered in recurring peasant revolts, failed to...

Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, most of the English common lands were enclosed--taken, by force, out of the hands of local collective use and privatized. The resistance to capitalism's "primitive accumulation," registered in recurring peasant revolts, failed to...