ISBN:
9781137394088
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (324 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Peasant Petitions : Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600-1850
DDC:
305.5/63309410903
Keywords:
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉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 / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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