1st Edition
Town and Countryside The English Landowner in the National Economy, 1660–1860
1. Introduction
J.R. Wordie
2. A country gentleman and his estates, c. 1720–68: Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell, Bart., of Coleshill, Berkshire
Janie Cottis
3. The purchase and management of Guy’s Hospital estates, 1726–1806
B.E.S. Trueman
4. A progressive landlord: the third Earl Spencer, 1782–1845
E.A. Wasson
5. Estate development in Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool, 1660–1720
C.W. Chalklin
6. Liverpool Corporations as landowners and dock builders, 1709–1835
Jane Longmore
7. The development of the Crown and Corporation Estates at Reading, 1828–60
S.T. Blake
8. A Devon family and their estates: the Northcotes of Upton Pyne, 1660–1851
P.J. Keeley
9. Aristocrats and entrepreneurs in the Shropshire mining industry, 1748–1803
J.R. Wordie
Biography
C.W. Chalklin is a leading authority on English urban history.
J.R. Wordie was a well-known agricultural historian.
Reviews of the first publication:
‘… this is an admirable and most welcome volume… it undoubtedly adds to the density and richness of our knowledge of the role of the landowner in the English economy between 1660 and 1860.’
— Angus Mcinnes, Agricultural History Review, Volume 42
‘… this is an interesting and stimulating collection of studies by able scholar,’
— Philip Jenkins, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1
