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The crisis of the old order in Russia : gentry and government /
Published 1982Table of Contents: “…The Political Crisis of the Landed Gentry --…”
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The crisis of the old order in Russia : gentry and government /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…The Political Crisis of the Landed Gentry --…”
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Gentlemen on the Prairie : Victorians in Pioneer Iowa /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Going Out to Iowa; 5. Landed Gentry in the Making; 6. Some Difficulties Surmounted; 7. …”
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The Cotton Plantation Remembered : an Egyptian Family Story.
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Love and dishonour in Elizabethan England : two families and a failed marriage /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Two families -- The Merninghams: land, court, and Catholicism -- 'A very lose dealer': the downfall of John Jerningham of Somerleyton -- The Forths: from clothiers to landed gentry -- Part II: An unfortunate marriage -- A clandestine marriage -- The end of the marriage -- Two cases in the Court of Requests -- Part III: Afterwards -- Aftermath -- Conclusions, reflections, and speculations -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Weight of evidence /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: Burrin Farm; Chapter Two: Rise and Fall; Chapter Three: Administering Illegal Oaths; Chapter Four: A Fool and His Money; Chapter Five: Letters from Ireland; Chapter Six: The Landed Gentry; Chapter Seven: A New Trial; Chapter Eight: Summing Up; Chapter Nine: The Storms of Fate; EPILOGUE; ADDENDUM: The Ejectment Legacy; DIGRESSIONS AND POSTSCRIPTS; SOURCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.…”
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The fall and rise of the English upper class : houses, kinship and capital since 1945 /
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A new history of yachting /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Stirrings and beginnings -- Restoration yachting and its purposes -- The development of yachting in the eighteenth century, part one : the seaside towns -- The development of yachting in the eighteenth century, part two : yachting in Boom Time London -- The Landed Gentry take up yachting -- The slow expansion of yachting in Britain, 1815-1870 -- The development of yachting in Ireland and the colonies -- The enthusiastic adoption of yachting by the mercantile and professional classes after 1870, part one : the new men -- The enthusiastic adoption of yachting by the mercantile and professional classes after 1870, part two : a philosophy of yachting for the new men -- The golden age of yachting, 1880-1900, part one : the rich -- The golden age of yachting, 1880-1900, part two : small boats and women sailors -- Between the wars -- 1945-1965 : home-built dinghies and going offshore -- Yachting's third 'golden period' : of heroes and heroines; of families and marinas, 1965-1990 -- The summer before the dark : yachting in post-modern times, 1990-2007 -- After the crash -- Epilogue : fair winds.…”
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The cotton plantation remembered : an Egyptian family story /
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Relics of the past : the collecting and study of pre-Columbian antiquities in Peru and Chile, 1837-1911 /
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The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe -- Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s -- Reinventing the American house: an overview of Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country -- Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795-1798): Latrobe's first explorations of the American context -- Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807): designs for a merchant elite, countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the emergence of the rational house -- A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807-1815): houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh -- Last houses (1815-1820): Latrobe's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans -- Some perspectives on an architect's career -- Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobe's houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde.…”
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Irish politics and social conflict in the age of the American Revolution /
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An agrarian republic : farming, antislavery politics, and nature parks in the Civil War era /
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Masculinity and danger on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour /
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New lives in an old land : re-turning to the colonisation of New South Wales through stories of my parents and their ancestors /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…-- 12 The Irish Uprising: Thomas Blomfield in Ireland -- 13 Richard Brooks: A Tragic Journey -- 14 Thomas Valentine (Val) Blomfield: At War with Napoleon -- 15 Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land: David Collins and His Descendants -- 16 Opening Up the Interior of New South Wales: William Cox -- 17 A Woman's View of the Colony: Christiana Brooks -- 18 From Soldier to Farmer: Thomas Valentine and Christiana Jane Brooks -- 19 Deputy Surveyor General: Samuel Perry and Surveying and Mapping the Land -- 20 From Scottish Tenant Farmers to Landed Gentry: Mary Wightman and Abraham Nivison -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.…”
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Mr. Jefferson's lost cause : land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Colonial-imperialism -- Colonies and empires -- From round table to board table -- Reinvesting the loot -- Landed gentry -- Chapter 8. Textile colonial-imperialism -- India is conquered by the mechanics -- Solving the problem of supply -- The Americans are put on notice -- Hamilton, Jefferson, and Tench Coxe respond to William Pitt -- Jefferson and the cotton business -- Slaves as cash crop -- The millers send out their salesmen -- Independence? …”
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