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Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History: From the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Present: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

Autor Eric L. Jones
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 apr 2018
Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and nationally influential owners. Historically, newcomers adopted the behaviour of existing landowners, all of whom presided over a relatively impoverished mass of rural inhabitants. Preferences for privacy and fine views led landowners to demolish or remove some whole villages.  Alongside extensive landscape remodelling, rights-of-way were often privatised, imposing a cost on the economy.
Social and environmental implications of the landed system as a whole are discussed and particular attention is paid to the nineteenth-century investment of industrial profits in estates. Why was the system so attractive and how was it perpetuated? Matters of poverty and inequality have always been of perennial interest to scholars of many persuasions and to the educated public; with this important book surveying environmental concerns in addition.  


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319748689
ISBN-10: 3319748688
Pagini: 143
Ilustrații: XI, 129 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Seria Palgrave Studies in Economic History

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: The Landed Interest.- Chapter 2: Cotton into Land.- Chapter 3: The Lower Orders.- Chapter 4: Expelling the People.- Chapter 5: Road Capture.- Chapter 6: Killing Grounds.- Chapter 7: Living by Rapine & Plunder.- Chapter 8: Institutions and Inequality in the Countryside.- Chapter 9: The Estate System as Market Failure.


Notă biografică

Eric L. Jones is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, Australia. He has spent a lifetime working and publishing extensively on the economic history of agriculture and environmental history. 

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and nationally influential owners. Historically, newcomers adopted the behaviour of existing landowners, all of whom presided over a relatively impoverished mass of rural inhabitants. Preferences for privacy and fine views led landowners to demolish or remove some whole villages.  Alongside extensive landscape remodelling, rights-of-way were often privatised, imposing a cost on the economy.
Social and environmental implications of the landed system as a whole are discussed and particular attention is paid to the nineteenth-century investment of industrial profits in estates. Why was the system so attractive and how was it perpetuated? Matters of poverty and inequality have always been of perennial interest to scholars of many persuasions and to the educated public; with this important book surveying environmental concerns in addition.  

Caracteristici

An important text from a world leader in British and World economic history Analyses the means whereby the estate system was maintained, including study of the investment of industrial fortunes in landed estates; exceptionally close use of regional material; examination of landscape and wildlife effects Includes novel discussion of the demolition of villages and of ‘road capture'