The Land Agent - (Scotland's Land) by Lowri Ann Rees & Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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, <em>The Land Agent</em> explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'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<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>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.</p>--Geoff Monks, University of Leicester "Family & Community History "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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. <p>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. <p>Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University. Her research interests revolve around the interrogation of the aristocratic and landed classes, landed estates and their management from the mid-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, in the Scottish, Irish, British and imperial contexts. 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 <i>The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920</i> (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and <i>Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945</i> (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).<p>
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