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

ISBN-13: 9783319748689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 129 str.

Eric L. Jones

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

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.