English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century

First published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and freeholders. Landed property was the foundation of eighteenth-century society. The soil itself yielded the nation its sustenance and most of its raw materials, and provided the population with its most extensive means of employment; and the owners of the soil derived from its consequence and wealth the right to govern.

Author: G. E. Mingay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780415847384

About the Author
G. E. Mingay Lecturer in Economic History -The London School of Economics and Political Science.