Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History (eBook)
XI, 129 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-74869-6 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Chapter 1: The Landed InterestChapter 2: Cotton into LandChapter 3: The Lower OrdersChapter 4: Expelling the PeopleChapter 5: Road CaptureChapter 6: Killing GroundsChapter 7: Living by Rapine & PlunderChapter 8: Institutions and Inequality in the CountrysideChapter 9: The Estate System as Market Failure
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.3.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Economic History | Palgrave Studies in Economic History |
| Zusatzinfo | XI, 129 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Schlagworte | agricultural history • Amenity motive • Cotton industry • Demolition of villages • Domestic Service • Economic history of landed estates • Efficiency of social institutions • Environmental history • Glorious Revolution • Labour Migration • Landed estates in English history • Mid-Seventeenth century England • Poverty in English history • Privacy motive • Public assets • Redistribution of wealth • Road capture • Rural inequality • Rural Poverty • Social apartheid |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-74869-6 / 3319748696 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-74869-6 / 9783319748696 |
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