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Land Agent (eBook, ePUB)

1700 - 1920

Redaktion: Rees, Lowri Ann; Tindley, Annie; Reilly, Ciaran

Beschreibung

Explores the role of land agents in Britain and its imperial territories between c. 1700-1920

This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power, The Land Agent explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.

Contributors

• David Gent, University of York
• Ewen A. Cameron, University of Edinburgh
• John MacGregor, Independent Scholar
• Fidelma Byrne, Maynooth University
• Rachel Murphy, University College Cork
• Finlay McKichan, Independent Scholar
• Lowri Ann Rees, Bangor University
• Anne Casement, Independent Scholar
• Ciarán Reilly, Independent Scholar
• Shaun Evans, Bangor University
• Robin K. Campbell, Independent Scholar
• Kirsty Gunn, University of Dundee
• Annie Tindley, Newcastle University

Technische Details

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• Größe: 1.17MB
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Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Lowri Ann Rees is Lecturer in Modern History, School of History and Archaeology, Bangor University. Her research interests centre on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales, in particular the landed elite and their country estates. Lowri has published on paternalism and rural protest, the Rebecca Riots, Welsh sojourners in India, and is currently researching upward social mobility in Wales. Ciarán Reilly is based at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, Maynooth University and is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish history. Annie Tindley is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, with expertise in modern Scottish, British and imperial history, focussing on the Scottish Highlands, landed elites and empire. She is degree programme leader on UG and PG History courses and the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474438896
• Artikelnr.: 72428510