Author : G.E Mingay
Release : 2013-10-16
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century by : G.E Mingay
Download or read book English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century written by G.E Mingay. This book was released on 2013-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and freeholders. Landed property was the foundation of eighteenth-century society. The soil itself yielded the nation its sustenance and most of its raw materials, and provided the population with its most extensive means of employment; and the owners of the soil derived from its consequence and wealth the right to govern.