Add this copy of Depopulation Arraigned, Convicted, and Condemned: to cart. $69.95, very good condition, Sold by Mike's Library rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Plymouth, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Walter J Johnson / Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. 9022108236. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, light sun, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of 1636 edition, London: Printed by R B. Condemnation of the enclosure movement, and the depopulation of rural areas after the elimination of common lands. "Robert Powell's 1636 Depopulation Arraigned went farther. Powell, a lawyer, stressed the economic and military costs of enclosure, which, by “translating culture into pasture, ” spread idleness, weakened the state—replacing towns of two or three hundred with handfuls of shepherds—and angered God. “Tillage, ” by contrast, “is the occasion of multiplying of people, both for service in the wars, and time of peace”; it promoted virtue and industry in husbandmen and enabled the nation to “stand upon it selfe. ”"-McCormick; "Population: Modes of Seventeenth-Century Demographic Thought" in Stern and Wennerlind (eds. ), Mercantilism Reimagined.; The English Experience, Its Record In Early Printed Books Published In Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 823; 118, [33] pages.
