Read more
Informationen zum Autor Edward Bujak is Assistant Professor of History at Harlaxton College, the British Campus of the Universtiy of Evansville, Indiana. Klappentext The English countryside in the nineteenth century experienced the shifting power struggle from the great landed estates towards democratisation. Challenging received scholarship that the landed estates declined in power and patronage, Bujak places the Victorian globalisation of trade alongside the democratisation of the English countryside. By doing so, he reveals that the economic decline of the great landed estates was balanced by their continued social and political influence in the countryside up to the Great War. With its focus on Suffolk, a county at the forefront of agricultural improvement and thus hardest hit by the agricultural depression, the patterns revealed by "England's Rural Realm" demonstrates the durability of the great estate system across the English countryside.The English countryside in the nineteenth century experienced the shifting power struggle from the great landed estates towards democratisation. Challenging received scholarship that the landed estates declined in power and patronage, this work places the Victorian globalisation of trade alongside the democratisation of the English countryside. Zusammenfassung The English countryside in the nineteenth century experienced the shifting power struggle from the great landed estates towards democratisation. Challenging received scholarship that the landed estates declined in power and patronage, Bujak places the Victorian globalisation of trade alongside the democratisation of the English countryside. By doing so, he reveals that the economic decline of the great landed estates was balanced by their continued social and political influence in the countryside up to the Great War. With its focus on Suffolk, a county at the forefront of agricultural improvement and thus hardest hit by the agricultural depression, the patterns revealed by "England's Rural Realm" demonstrates the durability of the great estate system across the English countryside. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.The Great Victorian Estates & Their Owners 2.Agriculture & the Great Estates, 1837-1901 3.The Landed Interest & the Land Question 4.Landowners & the ‘Lock Out’5.Landowners and Local Government6.The Landowner and the Tenant- Farmer7.Debt, Country Seats and Country Pursuits8.The Great Estates Before the Great WarConclusion...
