The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920: aristocratic decline, estate management and land reform
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1. Verfasser: Tindley, Annie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ©2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One 'The condition of its peasantry is wonderfully higher in every respect': The Sutherland Estate, 1850-701; Chapter Two 'A failure in every sense of the word': The Sutherland Reclamations, 1869-93; Chapter Three 'Agitation amounting to legalised coercion': The Sutherland Estate 1880-61; Chapter Four 'Gladstone has much to answer for': The Sutherland Estate, 1886-961; Chapter Five 'Unstained were the diadems Cromarty wore': The Sutherland Estate, 1897-19201
From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of the period; from the early nineteenth century, however, the family were shadowed by their reputation as great clearance landlords, something that would come back to haunt them throughout the coming decades. This book:studies the workings
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ISBN:0748642676
9780748642670

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