| Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain Subjects: Humanities; Class and Work; Rural and Urban Life; History; Concepts of Society; The Rural Environment; Social Groups; Types of Towns and Cities; The Urban Environment; Economic Developments; Urbanisation; British History; Modern History 1750-1945; Urban History; Social & Cultural History; Country Estates; Working Classes; Landowndership; Models of Class; Industrialisation; First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so, it explores the ways in which the estate system influenced urban development and how the peasant system facilitated the industrialisation of many villages. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian and social history, industrialisation and urbanisation. Dennis R. Mills |