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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Tindley, Annie (Editor), Reilly, Ciarán (Editor), Rees, Lowri Ann (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Series:Scotland's land.
Subjects:
Land use, Rural > Scotland > History.
Utilisation agricole du sol > Écosse > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Existentialism.
Land use, Rural
Scotland
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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