Title: Land and society in Britain, 1700-1914 : essays in honour of F.M.L. Thompson /
Authors: Thompson, F. M. L.; Harte, N. B.; Quinault, Roland E.; Thompson, F. M. L.
Publisher: Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Landowners Great Britain History.; Gentry Great Britain History.; Great Britain Economic conditions.; Great Britain Social conditions.; Great Britain Politics and government.
Contents: F.M.L. Thompson: an appreciation -- As friend and colleague / Penelope J. Corfield -- As a historian of landed society / Roland Quinault -- 1. The rivals: landed and other gentlemen / Penelope J. Corfield -- 2. English landed society and the Servants Tax of 1777 / John Chartres -- 3. Agricultural hand tools and the Industrial Revolution / E.J.T. Collins -- 4. Foreign farming in British eyes / Avner Offer -- 5. Businessmen into landowners: the question revisited / W.D. Rubinstein -- 6. Hodge's politics: agricultural labourers and the third Reform Act in Suffolk / P.F. Clarke and Kevin Langford -- 7. The political economy of death duties: Harcourt's Budget of 1894 / M.J. Daunton -- 8. Willloughby de Broke and Walter Long: English landed society and political extremism, 1912-14 / David Spring -- 9. Golf and Edwardian politics / Roland Quinault -- 10. After the horse: nobility and mobility in modern Britain / David Cannadine -- The published writings of F.M.L. Thompson / Jenny West.