English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century

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.

Introduction; Chapter I Landownership and Society in the Eighteenth Century; structure Structure; Chapter II The Structure of the Landed Classes; Chapter III The Growth of the Great Estates; Chapter IV The Lesser Landowners; functions Functions; Chapter V The Landlords and Politics; Chapter VI The Landlords and Society; Chapter VII The Landlords and Agriculture; Chapter VIII The Landlords and Industrial Development; country Country Life; Chapter IX The Landlords at Home; Chapter X The Life of the Farmers; Chapter XI The Landed Interest in the Eighteenth Century;

G. E. Mingay Lecturer in Economic History -The London School of Economics and Political Science.