This tribute to the achievement of a British historian of landed society brings together an international team of contributors. Each chapter offers an article dealing with a different aspect of land and society in the period covered.
Table of Contents:
F.M.L. Thompson: an appreciation - as friend and colleague, Penelope J. Corfield; an appreciation - as historian of land society - Roland Quinault. The rivals - landed and other gentlemen, Penelope J. Corfield; English landed society and the Servants Tax of 1777, John Chartres; agricultural hand tools and the industrial revolution, E.J.T. Collins; foreign farming in British eyes, Avner Offer; businessmen into landowners - the question revisited, W.D. Rubinstein; Hodge's politics - the agricultural labourers and the Third Reform Act in Suffolk, P.F. Clarke and Kevin Langford; the political economy of death duties - Harcourt's budget of 1894, M.J. Daunton; Willoughby de Broke and Walter Long - Englsih landed society and political extremism, 1912-1914, David Spring; golf and Edwardian politics, Roland Quinault; after the horse - nobility and mobility in modern Britian, David Cannadine. The published writings of F.M.L. Thompson, Jenny West.