This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period.
This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lowri Ann Rees is Lecturer in Modern History, School of History and Archaeology, Bangor University. Her research interests centre on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales, in particular the landed elite and their country estates. Lowri has published on paternalism and rural protest, the Rebecca Riots, Welsh sojourners in India, and is currently researching upward social mobility in Wales. Ciarán Reilly is based at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, Maynooth University and is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish history. Annie Tindley is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, with expertise in modern Scottish, British and imperial history, focussing on the Scottish Highlands, landed elites and empire. She is degree programme leader on UG and PG History courses and the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).
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Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction, Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley Section I: Power and its constructions on landed estates 1. 'Stirring and advancing times:' John Henderson, the Earls of Carlisle and Improvement on the Castle Howard estate, c. 1827-1867. David Gent 2. 'Not a popular personage': the factor in Scottish property relations, c. 1870-1920. Ewen A. Cameron 3. The factor and railway promotion in the Scottish Highlands: the West Highland Railway, John McGregor Section II: The transnational land agent: managing land in the four nations and beyond 4. Divisions of labour: inter-managerial conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam agents, Fidelma Byrne 5. The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850-1900. Rachel Murphy 6. Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean plantation manager, 1792-1822. Finlay McKichan Section III: Challenges and catastrophe - the land agent under fire 7. The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849-50: crisis and confrontation on the Londonderry estate in County Down, Anne Casement 8. Frustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843. Lowri Ann Rees 9. The evolution of the Irish Land Agent: the management of the Blundell estate in the eighteenth century, Ciarán Reilly 10, 'Between two interests': Pennant A. Lloyd's agency of the Penrhyn estate, 1860-77. Shaun Evans Section IV: Social memory and the land agent 11. John Campbell ('Am Baillidh Mor'), chamberlain to the 7th & 8th dukes of Argyll: tradition and social memory, Robin K. Campbell 12. 'Castle Government': the psychologies of land management in northern Scotland, c.1830-1890. Annie Tindley Postscript 13. The Land Agent in Fiction, Lowri A. Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley . 14. Poor Beasts, Kirsty Gunn. Index
Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction, Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley Section I: Power and its constructions on landed estates 1. 'Stirring and advancing times:' John Henderson, the Earls of Carlisle and Improvement on the Castle Howard estate, c. 1827-1867. David Gent 2. 'Not a popular personage': the factor in Scottish property relations, c. 1870-1920. Ewen A. Cameron 3. The factor and railway promotion in the Scottish Highlands: the West Highland Railway, John McGregor Section II: The transnational land agent: managing land in the four nations and beyond 4. Divisions of labour: inter-managerial conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam agents, Fidelma Byrne 5. The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850-1900. Rachel Murphy 6. Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean plantation manager, 1792-1822. Finlay McKichan Section III: Challenges and catastrophe - the land agent under fire 7. The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849-50: crisis and confrontation on the Londonderry estate in County Down, Anne Casement 8. Frustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843. Lowri Ann Rees 9. The evolution of the Irish Land Agent: the management of the Blundell estate in the eighteenth century, Ciarán Reilly 10, 'Between two interests': Pennant A. Lloyd's agency of the Penrhyn estate, 1860-77. Shaun Evans Section IV: Social memory and the land agent 11. John Campbell ('Am Baillidh Mor'), chamberlain to the 7th & 8th dukes of Argyll: tradition and social memory, Robin K. Campbell 12. 'Castle Government': the psychologies of land management in northern Scotland, c.1830-1890. Annie Tindley Postscript 13. The Land Agent in Fiction, Lowri A. Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley . 14. Poor Beasts, Kirsty Gunn. Index
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