The Land Agent: 1700 - 1920

ISBN-13: 9781474438872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Lowri Ann Rees;Ciarán Reilly;Annie Tindley

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Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction, Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley; Section I: Power and its constructions on landed estates; ‘Stirring and advancing times:’ John Henderson, the Earls of Carlisle and Improvement on the Castle Howard estate, c. 1827-1867. David Gent; ‘Not a popular personage’: the factor in Scottish property relations, c. 1870–1920. Ewen A. Cameron; The factor and railway promotion in the Scottish Highlands: the West Highland Railway, John McGregor; Section II: The transnational land agent: managing land in the four nations and beyond; Divisions of labour: inter-managerial conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam agents, Fidelma Byrne; The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850-1900. Rachel Murphy; Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean plantation manager, 1792-1822. Finlay McKichan; Section III: Challenges and catastrophe – the land agent under fire; The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849-50: crisis and confrontation on the Londonderry estate in County Down, Anne Casement; Frustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843. Lowri Ann Rees; The evolution of the Irish Land Agent: the management of the Blundell estate in the eighteenth century, Ciarán Reilly; ‘Between two interests’: Pennant A. Lloyd’s agency of the Penrhyn estate, 1860-77. Shaun Evans; Section IV: Social memory and the land agent; John Campbell (‘Am Baillidh Mor’), chamberlain to the 7th & 8th dukes of Argyll: tradition and social memory, Robin K. Campbell; ‘Castle Government’: the psychologies of land management in northern Scotland, c.1830-1890. Annie Tindley; Postscript; The Land Agent in Fiction, Lowri A. Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley; Poor Beasts, Kirsty Gunn; Index