Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xii
5. ABBREVIATIONS xiv
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART I: COMMON THREADS
8. CHAPTER 1 COMMONS IN THE BRITISH LANDSCAPE 9
9. CHAPTER 2 CUSTOM AND LAW: THE GENESIS OF COMMON LAND 21
10. CHAPTER 3 MANAGING COMMUNAL RESOURCES 51
11. CHAPTER 4 COMMONS AS COMMUNAL SPACES 83
12. CHAPTER 5 LIVING ON THE EDGE: COMMONS AND THE POOR 111
13. CHAPTER 6 THE AGE OF ‘IMPROVEMENT’: PRIVATISATION AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF COMMON LAND 129
14. CHAPTER 7 THE COMMONS REINVENTED 153
15. CHAPTER 8 THE CHANGING FACE OF COMMON LAND SINCE 1860 183
16. PART II: A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COMMON LANDSCAPES: EIGHT CASE STUDIES
17. CHAPTER 9 NORTH ASSYNT COMMON GRAZINGS, SUTHERLAND 205
18. CHAPTER 10 NETHER WASDALE COMMON, CUMBERLAND 215
19. CHAPTER 11 COCKFIELD FELL, CO. DURHAM 223
20. CHAPTER 12 ISLE OF AXHOLME TURBARY ALLOTMENTS, LINCOLNSHIRE 229
21. CHAPTER 13 LLANLLECHID MOUNTAIN AND ABER MOUNTAIN, CAERNARVONSHIRE 235
22. CHAPTER 14 BRINGSTY COMMON AND BROMYARD DOWNS, HEREFORDSHIRE 245
23. CHAPTER 15 IBSLEY COMMON AND ROCK FORD COMMON, NEW FOREST, HAMPSHIRE 255
24. CHAPTER 16 WIMBLEDON COMMON AND PUTNEY HEATH, SURREY 265
25. CONCLUSION: COMMON GROUND 275
26. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 283
27. INDEX 303