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This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.Volume 2Contents: Rural society and agricultural change in nineteenth-century Britain, from George Grantham and Carol S. Leonard (eds.), Agrarian organisation in the century of industrialisation: Europe, Russia, and North America (Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1989); Life after death: how successful nineteenth-century businessmen disposed of their fortunes, Economic History Review, 2nd ser, 43 (1990); English landed society in the twentieth century, 1, Property: collapse and surv...
This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.
Ten essays by scholars who have been influenced by the specialist in the history of British landed society, who retired in 1990. The topics include the rivalry between landed and other gentry, the Servants Tax of 1777, attitudes toward foreign farming, agricultural laborers and the third Reform Act in Suffolk, the political economy of death duties, the political extremism of Willoughby de Broke and Walter Long, golf and Edwardian politics, and mobility after the horse. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
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