Peasant Petitions [electronic resource] : Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600-1850 /
Houston, R.author.
This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction: Understanding the Rural Societies of the British Isles; 1 'Unimportant minorities': the landholding peasantry of Britain and Ireland, c.1600-1850; 2 People above and below: 'landlordism', 'estate studies', and relationships between owners and workers of land; 3 Methodologies: the practice and theory of petitions, and the choice of estates; Part II: Landed Estates: Personnel, Organisation, Documentation, and Elements of Variance; Introduction to Part II
4 Stewards and other estate officials5 The estates and the petitions; 6 Petitions and the rhythms of estate life; 7 Empty spaces: the missing estate petitions of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Wales; Part III: Authorship, Physical form, and Written Style of Petitions; Introduction to Part III; 8 Authenticity and authorship; 9 Physical form; 10 Address; 11 Ending; 12 Delivery and receipt; Part IV: The Content of Petitions; Introduction to Part IV; 13 The north of Ireland, c.1750-1850; 13.1 The Drapers' Company as lords: the digest of petitions, 1832
13.2 Ulster tenant right and the petitions13.3 Giving and concealing information: the silences and menaces of petitions in the north of Ireland; 14 North-West England, c. 1600-1800; 14.1 Law and lordship in the Cumberland petitions; 14.2 Group petitions and the enfranchisement of customary holdings in Cumberland; 14.3 Manor courts and lordship in the Cumberland petitions; 14.4 The distinctiveness of the Cumberland petitions; 15 The Highland margin of Scotland, c. 1770-1860; 15.1 The reorganisation of the Breadalbane estate; 15.2 Military recruitment, the estate, and the peasantry
15.3 The tone of petitions and tropes of dependency and neighbourhood15.4 Tacksmen, 'interest', and fractures within the estate community; 15.5 Information, its reception, and the estate's response; 15.6 A new world: continuity and change in the mid nineteenth century; 15.7 The distinctiveness of the Breadalbane petitions; Part V: Land, Psychology, and the 'Hard Surfaces of Life': Asking for Poor Relief on Landed Estates; Introduction to Part V; 16 Poverty and self-help in north-west England and Wales
17 Petitioning for relief on Breadalbane: estate policy, family life, and strategies for care18 Poverty and its relief in the north of Ireland: the place of the estate; 19 Psychology and necessity: attachment to the land in parts of Scotland and Ireland; Part VI: Conclusion: the Landlords and Tenants of Britain and Ireland; 20 Paternalism and deference; 21 Oppressions, freedoms, and their politico-legal context; 22 The texture of rural society in parts of Britain and Ireland; Select bibliography of secondary literature published since 1960; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the structures and texture of rural social relationships, using one type of document found in abundance over all the four component parts of Britain and Ireland: petitions from tenants to their landlords. The book offers unexpected angles on many aspects of society and economy on estates in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Civilization-History.
Great Britain-History.
Social history.
History, Modern.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
Modern History.