England's Rural Realms: Landholding and the Agricultural Revolution

by Edward Bujak

Book Overview

The English countryside in the nineteenth century experienced the shifting power struggle from the great landed estates towards democratisation. Challenging received scholarship that the landed estates declined in power and patronage, Bujak places the Victorian globalisation of trade alongside the democratisation of the English countryside. By doing so, he reveals that the economic decline of the great landed estates was balanced by their continued...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350172693
• ISBN13: 9781350172692
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"