Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History From the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Present /

• Main Author: Jones, Eric L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Agricultural economics.; Environmental economics.; Economic History.; Agricultural Economics.; Environmental Economics.

Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and nationally influential owners. Historical...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Landed Interest
• Chapter 2: Cotton into Land
• Chapter 3: The Lower Orders
• Chapter 4: Expelling the People
• Chapter 5: Road Capture
• Chapter 6: Killing Grounds
• Chapter 7: Living by Rapine & Plunder
• Chapter 8: Institutions and Inequality in the Countryside
• Chapter 9: The Estate System as Market Failure.