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Informationen zum Autor John Broad is Principal Lecturer in History at the London Metropolitan University. Klappentext John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon! Buckinghamshire! demonstrating the family's rise to wealth as motivated by a strong dynastic imperative. He reveals how the family managed its estates to maximize income and used its wealth to transform the Claydon villages and landscape! creating a pattern of "open" and "closed" parishes. Based on the formidable Verney family archive with its abundant correspondence! this book will appeal to anyone interested in the English countryside as a dynamic force in English social! economic and demographic history. Zusammenfassung John Broad explores the rise and fall of the Verney family of Middle Claydon! Buckinghamshire. He shows how the family were impelled by a strong dynastic imperative! how they managed their estates to maximize income and transformed three local villages into 'open' and 'closed' parishes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on editorial practice; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. Re-establishing a Gentry Family 1600-57: 2. A gentry family in county and court society 1603-42; 3. The Civil War and Interregnum 1642-57; 4. The creation of an enclosed estate 1600-57; Part II. The Shaping of Family and Village 1657-1740: 5. Land, business and dynastic advance 1657-1736; 6. The making of a modern landed estate; 7. Power in the community - the making of an estate village 1660-1740; Part III. The Great Estate and Estate Communities c.1700-1820: 8. The rise and fall of Verney fortunes in the eighteenth century 1740-1820; 9. Transforming the Claydons in the eighteenth century; 10. Conclusion; Appendix A: Sir Ralph Verney's confessional letter of 1650; Appendix B: the genealogy of the Verney family; Bibliography; Index.
