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.

• | Author: G. E. Mingay
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0415847389
• | ISBN-13: 9780415847384