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England's Rural Realms: Landholding and the Agricultural Revolution (International Library of Economics)

By Edward Bujak

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1845114728, 9781845114725, 9781435649705
Open Library ID
OL11911290M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
716 kB (733266 bytes)
Pages
272\281
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The English countryside in the nineteenth century experienced the shifting power struggle from the great landed estates towards democratization. Challenging received scholarship that the landed estates declined in power and patronage Bujak places the Victorian globalization of trade alongside the democratization of the English countryside. By doing so he reveals that the economic decline of the great landed estates was balanced by their continued social and political influence in the countryside up to the Great War. With its focus on Suffolk, a county at the forefront of agricultural improvement and thus hardest hit by the agricultural depression, the patterns revealed by England's Rural Realm demonstrates the durability of the great estate system across the English countryside.

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