The Land Agent: 1700-1920

ISBN-13: 9781474438865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Annie Tindley; Lowri Ann Rees; Ciaran Reilly

Opis

This book brings together leading historians and writers on British and Irish rural history, to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, from c. 1700 to 1920.

Spis treści

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