The Land Agent: 1700 - 1920 (Scotland's Land) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474438865 ISBN 13: 9781474438865

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This book brings together leading historians and writers on British and Irish rural history, to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, from c. 1700 to 1920. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day to day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates; as such, they occupy a controversial place in both academic historiography and popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. But who were these men? It is this question the book seeks to unpack, re-framing the academic field, uncovering a neglected history and making a significant contribution to the historiography of rural Britain and the empire.

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About the Authors

Lowri Ann Rees is Lecturer in Modern History, School of History and Archaeology, Bangor University. Her research interests centre on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales, in particular the landed elite and their country estates. Lowri has published on paternalism and rural protest, the Rebecca Riots, Welsh sojourners in India, and is currently researching upward social mobility in Wales.

Ciarán Reilly is based at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, Maynooth University and is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish history.

Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. In 2015 she established and became the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre, and is the series editor for Scotland's Land, an interdisciplinary book series published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).

From the Back Cover

'This is a very important and pioneering comparative study of land agents in Ireland and Britain, a class often reviled in historiography and literature. Ambitious in its scope and accessible in its scholarship, it is crammed with significant original details about the lives, social backgrounds, education, training, capabilities and weaknesses of a class central to Irish and British rural life in the long nineteenth century.' Terence Dooley, Maynooth University Explores the role of land agents in Britain and its imperial territories between c. 1700 and 1920 This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpicking the nature and processes of their power, The Land Agent explores who these men were and examines the wider significance of their roles - thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society. Lowri Ann Rees is Lecturer in Modern History at Bangor University. Ciarán Reilly is based at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, Maynooth University. Annie Tindley is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University. Note change to credit line Cover image: Loch Glendhu, Sutherland by Oakley Cundall 2017 Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3886-5 Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474438865
• ISBN 13: 9781474438865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Rees Lowri Ann, Reilly Ciarán, Tindley Annie