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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction, Lowri Ann Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley
Section I: Power and its constructions on landed estates1. 'Stirring and advancing times:' John Henderson, the Earls of Carlisle and Improvement on the Castle Howard estate, c. 1827-1867. David Gent2. 'Not a popular personage': the factor in Scottish property relations, c. 1870-1920. Ewen A. Cameron3. The factor and railway promotion in the Scottish Highlands: the West Highland Railway, John McGregor
Section II: The transnational land agent: managing land in the four nations and beyond4. Divisions of labour: inter-managerial conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam agents, Fidelma Byrne5. The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850-1900. Rachel Murphy6. Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean plantation manager, 1792-1822. Finlay McKichan
Section III: Challenges and catastrophe - the land agent under fire7. The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849-50: crisis and confrontation on the Londonderry estate in County Down, Anne Casement8. Frustrations and fears: the impact of the Rebecca Riots on the land agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843. Lowri Ann Rees9. The evolution of the Irish Land Agent: the management of the Blundell estate in the eighteenth century, Ciarán Reilly10, 'Between two interests': Pennant A. Lloyd's agency of the Penrhyn estate, 1860-77. Shaun Evans
Section IV: Social memory and the land agent11. John Campbell ('Am Baillidh Mor'), chamberlain to the 7th & 8th dukes of Argyll: tradition and social memory, Robin K. Campbell12. 'Castle Government': the psychologies of land management in northern Scotland, c.1830-1890. Annie Tindley
Postscript 13. The Land Agent in Fiction, Lowri A. Rees, Ciarán Reilly & Annie Tindley.14. Poor Beasts, Kirsty Gunn.Index
