Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History: From the Mid-seventeenth Century to the Present - Rilegato

Jones, Eric L.

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ISBN 10: 3319748688 ISBN 13: 9783319748689

Casa editrice: Palgrave Pivot, 2018

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull'autore

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. 

Dalla quarta di copertina

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.  

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Pivot
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3319748688
• ISBN 13: 9783319748689
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 140
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