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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Scotland's land.
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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.