The enclosure movement probably peaked from 1760 to 1832; by the latter date it had essentially completed the destruction of the medieval peasant community.
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Following the suppression of the Uva Rebellion the Kandyan peasantry were stripped of their lands by the Wastelands Ordinance, a modern enclosure movement, and reduced to penury.
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It gained popularity in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the enclosure movement and the practice was introduced to Australia during the mid-1800s.
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Following the bloody suppression of the Uva Rebellion, the Kandyan peasantry were stripped of their lands by the Wastelands Ordinance, a modern enclosure movement and reduced to penury.
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With the rise of the Enclosure Movement in the late 18th Century and early 19th Century came the control of sires and the rapid improvement in livestock herds.
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Neither the Enclosure Movement nor the Corn Laws were directly related to the Luddite Movement, but in the cycle these serve to explore the wider problems of common workers.
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An 18th century forebear, the second baronet, Sir Christopher Sykes ( 1749 1801 ), was a major figure in the enclosure movement that seized ownership of common land for private use.
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But critics warn that, far from promoting innovation, America is amid an information-age enclosure movement comparable to the fencing off of public grazing lands at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
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Graeber also notes that the criminalization of debt supplemented the enclosure movements in the destruction of English communities, since credit between community members had originally reinforced communal ties prior to state intervention:
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It has been suggested that the increasing interest in traditional popular ballads during the eighteenth century was prompted by social issues such as the enclosure movement as many of the ballads deal with themes concerning rural laborers.