Estate Management in Eighteenth Century England. The building of the Leveson-Gower fortune
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- Author(s) Wordie, J Ross
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1982
- Pages 303pp; illus
- Publisher Royal Historical Society
- Place Published London
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- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the early development of the landed estates of the Leveson Gower family and the development out of these of their industrial interests. Has sections: 'Leveson-Gowers and their property'; 'Estate administration' [pp24-74] - includes Thomas Gilbert and commercialism, 1758-1788; 'Finance and industry' [pp75-154] - early industrial enterprise, 1691-1748, emergence of industry, 1748-1803, capital accumulation, 1803-20; 'Agrarian and agricultural trends'; 'The political dimension - political interests