eBooks - History - World - Martin Blinkhorn - Ralph Gibson - Landownership and Power in Modern Europe
Landownership and Power in Modern Europe eBook
By: Martin Blinkhorn ~ Editor: Ralph Gibson
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Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
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Landownership and Power in Modern Europe Summary
| Landownership and Power in Modern Europe provides the first comparative analysis of the relationship between the possession of land and the exercise of power in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Twelve eminent historians examine this relationship in several regions of France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Great Britain and Ireland. The settings discussed range from peasant communities to impoverished landless labourers and reveal a variety of social climates from relative harmony to bitter and bloody conflict. There is a wide-ranging discussion of a variety of key issues including the distribution of landownership and wealth; patterns of agricultural exploitation; the response of landowners to challenge from below. |
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