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

by Eric L. Jones and Eric Lionel Jones

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. Historically, newcomers adopted the behaviour of existing landowners, all of whom presided over a relatively impoverished mass of rural inhabitants. Preferences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319748688
• ISBN13: 9783319748689
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"