English landed society in the nineteenth century - THOMPSON, F.M.L.,

KORTE INHOUD

Hardcover, Third impression. xiii + 374 pp. With map of England showing the country seats and the centres of detached estates, with a line dividing the predominantly corn counties of the east from the grazing counties of the west (based on J. Caird, English Agriculture in 1850-1851). Bibliography, index. This book deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with its role as a social group. It includes much agragrian and some industrial history as seen from the landowners' point of view. It is based on research in a multitude of private collections of manuscripts. Research in many County Record Offices. Pays attention to the New Domesday Survey of 1873 (the first since 1086): 80% of the land of the United Kingdom was owned by less than 7.000 persons . At the end of the 19th c. old nobility and 'nouveau riches' mix (marrying into new wealth). The author is Lecturer in Modern History at the University College London.
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1969Uitgever: Routledge & Kegan Paul374 paginasTaal: Engels