The Land Agent

1700 - 1920

By: Lowri Ann Rees (Editor), Ciarn Reilly (Editor), Annie Tindley (Editor)

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Hardcover | 20 June 2018

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256 Pages

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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 unpacking the nature and processes of their power, The Land Agent explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.

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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 centuries.--Prof Terence Dooley, Maynooth University.
Through their thematic and chronological approach, the editors have created a volume which begins to fill the gaps in the literature. Although this is just the beginning of our understanding of the extent to which the land agent influenced the diurnal management of the estate and the management of local society its case study methodology demonstrates how the approach needed varied, locally, regionally and nationally... At the core of the volume are the different relationships which land agents had to develop and thus this research will have a broad appeal, not just to those interested in rural history, but also to those whose research lies in the relationships forged in the rural community more generally.--Geoff Monks, University of Leicester "Family & Community History"

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