Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System

English Landownership, 1650-1950

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

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Beskrivning

Unil the later nineteenth century the great landlords and the gentry were the central element in the social and political life of the country, and even as late as 1940, in the supreme crisis of English history, the choice of leader lay between a grandson of the 11th Earl of Devon and a grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. This book examines the social and legal foundations of this class - the estate and the family - from the late seventeenth century, when it freed itself from many of the constraints of royal power, to the present century when it became submerged by mass democracy. It sets out to answer the question why, in the first industrial nation, the landed élite so long retained its role. Sir John Habakkuk's comprehensive examination of the structure of the landed family, its estate, and its relations with other social groups sheds light on this problem, and makes a major contribution to historical debate.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-09-08
Mått:163 x 243 x 51 mm
Vikt:1 220 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:804
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198203988

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There are few books of which it can genuinely be said that they represent a real advance in our under-standing of how the past worked. This is one of them, and the electors to the Ford lectures at Oxford are to be congratulated on their shrewdness in inviting Sir John to give them in 1985. They have been handsomely repaid.