Marriage Debt And The Estates System

Author : H. J. Habakkuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009757985

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Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System by H. J. Habakkuk Pdf

This major study by a leading British historian examines the social and legal foundations of the British ruling class--the great landlords and the gentry--from the late seventeenth century, when it freed itself from many of the constraints of royal power, to the twentieth century, when it was subsumed by mass democracy. Habakkuk's comprehensive book addresses the question of why, in the first industrial nation, the landed elite so long retained its role. This thorough examination of the structure of the landed family, its estate, and its relations with other social groups sheds light on this problem, and makes a major contribution to historical debate. It will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern and modern British history, especially social, economic, legal, and family historians.

Author : John Habakkuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Families
ISBN : OCLC:470490008

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Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System by John Habakkuk Pdf

Author : Benno Engels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498585453

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The Poverty of Planning by Benno Engels Pdf

Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-based pressure group activity.

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826439109

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Creating Paradise by Richard Wilson Pdf

Building or rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might say their greatest achievement. This is the first book to look at the building of country houses as a whole. Creating Paradise shows why owners embarked on building programmes, often following the Grand Tour or excursions around other houses in England; where they looked for architectural inspiration and assistance; and how the building was actually done. It deals not only with great houses, including Holkham and Castle Howard, but also the diversity of smaller ones such as Felbrigg and Dyrham, and shows the cost not only of building but of decorating and furnishing houses and of making their gardens. Creating Paradise is an important and original contribution to its subject and a highly readable account of the attitude of the English ruling class to its most important

Author : Ruth Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139454438

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Novel Relations by Ruth Perry Pdf

Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians.

Author : Robert A. Cord
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030584719

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The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics by Robert A. Cord Pdf

The University of Oxford has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With six chapters on themes in Oxford economics and 24 chapters on the lives and work of Oxford economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the University, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Roy Harrod and David Hendry, and how it remains a global force for the very best in teaching and research in economics. With original contributions from a stellar cast, this volume provides economists – especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of economic thought – with the first in-depth analysis of Oxford economics.

Author : Jon Stobart,Mark Rothery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198726265

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Consumption and the Country House by Jon Stobart,Mark Rothery Pdf

"This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and the Country House charts the spending patterns of this elite group during the so-called consumer revolution of the eighteenth century. Generally examined through the lens of middling families, homes and motivations, this book explores the ways in which the aristocracy were engaged in this wider transformation of English society. Analysis centres on the goods that the aristocracy purchased, both luxurious and mundane; the extent to which they pursued fashionable modes and goods; the role that family and friends played in shaping notions of taste; the influence of gender on taste and refinement; the geographical reach of provisioning and the networks that lay behind this consumer activity, and the way this all contributed to the construction of the country house. The country house thus emerges as much more than a repository of luxury and splendour; it lay at the heart of complex networks of exchange, sociability, demand, and supply. Exploring these processes and relationships serves to reanimate the country house, making it an active site of consumption rather than simply an expression of power and taste, and drawing it into the mainstream of consumption histories. At the same time, the landed aristocracy are shown to be rounded consumers, driven by values of thrift and restraint as much as extravagant desires, and valuing the old as well as the new, not least as markers of their pedigree and heritance"--Publisher description.

Author : E. S. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521652022

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Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies by E. S. Shaffer Pdf

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism, to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and to interdisciplinary perspectives. This new volume takes 'Myth and mythologies' as its central theme. Articles include: the Shadow of Ulysses beyond 2001; Genesis: a tale of a heel and a hip; Myths of 'High' and 'Low': the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998 and Myths of the Indies: Jane Austen and the British Empire. The winning entries in the 1997/8 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are published, as well as a special bibliography on the works of H. G. Adler.

Author : Laurence Fontaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107018815

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The Moral Economy by Laurence Fontaine Pdf

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State around the ban on usury, and analyzes the institutions created to eradicate usury and the informal petty financial economy that developed as a result. Laurence Fontaine unpacks the values that structured these lending practices, namely, the two competing cultures of credit that coexisted, fought, and sometimes merged: the vibrant aristocratic culture and the capitalistic merchant culture. More broadly, Fontaine shows how economic trust between individuals was constructed in the early modern world. By creating a dialogue between past and present, and contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit, Fontaine draws attention to the necessity of recognizing the different values that coexist in diverse political economies.

Author : British Academy
Publisher : Proceedings of the British Aca
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0197263208

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows by British Academy Pdf

Volume 124 of the 'Proceedings of the British Academy' contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.

Author : Anne Laurence,Josephine Maltby,Janette Rutterford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134111343

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Women and Their Money 1700-1950 by Anne Laurence,Josephine Maltby,Janette Rutterford Pdf

This book, the first of its kind, will be of interest across several disciplines including economics, economic history, business history, British history and women/gender history The fact that the essays reach beyond Britain and include work on Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, Sweden and the West Indies will stimulate interest throughout (and even beyond) the English speaking world There is a growing interest in the study of women’s economic activity, which reflects the recognition that economics and economic/business history are not gender neutral subjects

Author : Desmond Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226584478

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Marketable Values by Desmond Fitz-Gibbon Pdf

The idea that land should be—or even could be—treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and political power, and that resisted comparisons with more easily transacted and abstract markets. Fast-forward to today, when house-flipping is ubiquitous and references to the fluctuating property market fill the news. How did we get here? In Marketable Values, Desmond Fitz-Gibbon seeks to answer that question. He tells the story of how Britons imagined, organized, and debated the buying and selling of land from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In a society organized around the prestige of property, the desire to commodify land required making it newly visible through such spectacles as public auctions, novel professions like auctioneering, and real estate journalism. As Fitz-Gibbon shows, these innovations sparked impassioned debates on where, when, and how to demarcate the limits of a market society. As a result of these collective efforts, the real estate business became legible to an increasingly attentive public and a lynchpin of modern economic life. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources—from personal archives and estate correspondence to building designs, auction handbills, and newspapers—Marketable Values explores the development of the British property market and the seminal role it played in shaping the relationship we have to property around the world today.

Author : Laura E. Thomason
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611485271

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The Matrimonial Trap by Laura E. Thomason Pdf

Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously because they lacked the power either to avoid it or to define it for themselves. For some women, the written word became a means by which to exercise the power that they otherwise lacked. Through their writing, they made the inevitable acceptable while registering their dissatisfaction with their circumstances. Rhetoric, exercised both in public and in private, allowed these women to define their identities as individuals and as wives, to lay out and test the boundaries of more egalitarian spousal relationships, and to criticize the traditional marriage system as their culture had defined it.

Author : Annie Tindley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748642670

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Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 by Annie Tindley Pdf

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

Author : John Broad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139451888

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Transforming English Rural Society by John Broad Pdf

Between 1540 and 1920 the English elite transformed the countryside and landscape by building up landed estates which were concentrated around their country houses. John Broad's study of the Verney family of Middle Claydon in Buckinghamshire demonstrates two sides of that process. Charting the family's rise to wealth impelled by a strong dynastic imperative, Broad shows how the Verneys sought out heiress marriages to expand wealth and income. In parallel, he shows how the family managed its estates to maximize income and transformed three local village communities, creating a pattern of 'open' and 'closed' villages familiar to nineteenth-century commentators. Based on the formidable Verney family archive with its abundant correspondence, this book also examines the world of poor relief, farming families as well as strategies for estate expansion and social enhancement. It will appeal to anyone interested in the English countryside as a dynamic force in social and economic history.