The land agent, 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tindley, Annie (Editor ), Reilly, Ciarán (Editor ), Rees, Lowri Ann (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Colección:Scotland's land.
Temas:
Land use, Rural > Scotland > History.
Utilisation agricole du sol > Écosse > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Existentialism.
Land use, Rural
Scotland
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly and Annie Tindley
  • Part I. Power and its constructions on landed estates
  • 'Stirring and advancing times' : landlords, agents and improvement on the Castle Howard estate, 1826-66 / 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
  • Part 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
  • Part 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
  • Part IV. Social memory and the land agent
  • John Campbell ('Am Baillidh Mor'), Chamberlain to the 7th and 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 and agent in fiction / Lowri A. Rees, Ciarán Reilly and Annie Tindley
  • Poor Beasts / Kirsty Gunn.

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