390 Pages
by
Routledge
390 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with its role as a social group and includes much agrarian and some industrial history as seen from the landowners' point of view. The first seven... Read more
Chapter 1 The Nature of Landed Society; Chapter 2 Aristocratic England; Chapter 3 The Institutions of the Landed Aristocracy; Chapter 4 The Life of a Landed Aristocrat; Chapter 5 The Landed Gentry and County Society; Chapter 6 The Management of the Landed Estates; Chapter 7 Landowners and the Local Community; Chapter 8 Landed Estates in War and Peace, 1790–1835; Chapter 9 Estates in the Railway Age, 1835–79; Chapter 10 The Decline of the Landed Interest, 1830–80; Chapter 11 Indian Summer, 1880–1914; Chapter 12 Eclipse, 1914–39;
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F. M. L. Thompson
