Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs

Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs explores a number of important themes in modern social and economic history. Its wide range of original studies by distinguished historians throws fresh light on the developing connections between landed and business classes and between the economies on both sides of the Atlantic. The subject matter ranges from French and British landowners as agricultural improvers to the financing of American railroads, from married women's property to the effects of robots on unemployment. The volume as a whole adds much to our knowledge of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Contributors
H. J. Habakkuk: A Bibliography
Introduction	p. 1
English and French Landowners 1688-1789	p. 23
A World Elsewhere: The Importance of Starting English	p. 63
The Decline of the Small Landowner in England and Wales 1660-1900	p. 89
Henry Hoare, Banker, his Family, and the Stourhead Estate	p. 113
Business and Landed Elites in the Nineteenth Century	p. 139
Men, Women, and Property: The Reform of the Married Women's Property Act 1870	p. 171
Entrepreneurship and Public Inquiry: The Growth of Government in Nineteenth-Century Britain	p. 193
Colonies and Capital: Some Aspects of Anglo-Colonial Financial Relations after 1850	p. 213
International Capital Movements and the Gold Standard: British Domestic Investment and American Railroads in the 1880s	p. 235
Labour Scarcity and Capital Markets in America	p. 257
The Reaper and the Robot: The Adoption of Labour-Saving Machinery in the Past and Future	p. 275
Index	p. 307
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Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs Essays for Sir John Habakkuk

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