On the question of agrarian 'regions' or 'pays', I wonder whether it might be
helpful to look also at John Walter and Roger Schofield, eds, _Famine, Disease
and the Social Order in Early Modern England_, since, esp in Walter's pieces
(and going back here to the work of the honorand of these essays, the late
Andrew Appleby) it addresses the fundamental question of the nature of
inter-relationship between these regions -- the degree to which they had become
inter-dependent, 'integrated' or not. It also raises the question of
historical demography, and whatever one thinks about the samples taken by
Tony Wrigley and Roger Schofield. How do people conceive the role of
demographic change now?
For a _brief_ textbook on the economy, is Chris Clay, _Economic Expansion and
Social Change, England 1500-1700, helpful, or are there other suggestions?
Dave Postles
pot@le.ac.uk