(iii) 1700-1850.

This article provides information on various published papers related to economic and social changes in Great Britain from 1700 to 1850. J.V. Beckett's article, "The Peasant in England: A Case of Terminological Confusion," is a useful preliminary warning that contemporaries would have understood the term to include landless agricultural labor. The small landholder was, however, far more widespread, even after 1800, than is usually believed. Mick Reed, a historian, argues that if the census figures are reworked and the extent of commons and sub-letting acknowledged, small-holders can be seen to have played a crucial role in mediating economic and class relations in farming communities through noncommercial reciprocal relationships, their responsibilities to the poor, and their support for the protests of wage laborers. In his article, "The Peasantry of Nineteenth-century England." Reed contributes to the debate about agrarian protest and social control models. He maintains that conflict extended beyond protest incidents into the day-to-day relationships between farmers and their servants and was a phenomenon of both open and closed parishes.