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A HISTORY OF THE 



ENGLISH AGRICULTURAL 

 LABOURER 



By W. HASBACH 



(Professor of Political Science in the University of Kiel) 



With a Preface by SIDNEY WEBB, LL.B. 



Spectator. — The thoroughness and sincerity displayed in the author's 

 investigation and writing are noteworthy. . . . We hope that his book 

 will be read by every country resident and every townsman who is 

 desirous of obtaining a grip of some of the bottom facts of rural 

 questions. 



Morning Post. — Dr. Hasbach's big book upon the history of the English 

 agricultural labourer, which first appeared in Germany, ... is here 

 translated into English from a new edition, and furnishes the reader 

 in this country with an opportunity of judging one of the most valu- 

 able of those foreign studies upon our economic life which have of 

 late years been so numerous. 



Nation. — The author and translator of the present volume have done 

 good service in simplifying and completing Dr. Hasbach's history. . . . 

 His book gives one a favourable impression, not only of its careful 

 learning and skilled digestion of facts, but also of its impartiality. 



Economist. — Dr. Hasbach has added to the considerable debt which 

 Englishmen, anxious to understand their own country's institutions, 

 owed already to foreign students. ... It is to be wished that every 

 legislator who has taken in hand the difficult problems of English 

 village life had mastered the sombre and momentous history which 

 Dr. Hasbach has here explored. 



Manchester Guardian. — The book is an admirable example of scholarly 

 and industrious research, forming a valuable contribution to the 

 history of social and economic progress. . . . The text is fortified by 

 ample notes and copious tables of statistics, the analysis of the best 

 opinion of each succeeding epoch is illuminating, and the conclusions 

 are just and convincing. No more valuable literary aid could be given 

 to the fruitful study of the problems of rural regeneration, and no 

 student of the subject can in future afford to overlook Dr. Hasbach's 

 book. 



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