Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
‘Unimportant minorities’: the landholding peasantry of Britain and Ireland, c. 1600–1850....Pages 3-9
People above and below: ‘landlordism’, ‘estate studies’, and relationships between owners and workers of land....Pages 10-23
Methodologies: the practice and theory of petitions, and the choice of estates....Pages 24-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-35
Stewards and other estate officials....Pages 37-47
The estates and the petitions....Pages 48-56
Petitions and the rhythms of estate life....Pages 57-59
Empty spaces: the missing estate petitions of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Wales....Pages 60-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-75
Authenticity and authorship....Pages 77-86
Physical form....Pages 87-93
Address....Pages 94-96
Ending....Pages 97-103
Delivery and receipt....Pages 104-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-111
The north of Ireland, c. 1750–1850....Pages 113-145
North-West England, c. 1600–1800....Pages 146-170
The Highland margin of Scotland, c. 1770–1860....Pages 171-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-218
Poverty and self-help in north-west England and Wales....Pages 219-229
Petitioning for relief on Breadalbane: estate policy, family life, and strategies for care....Pages 230-248
Poverty and its relief in the north of Ireland: the place of the estate....Pages 249-254
Psychology and necessity: attachment to the land in parts of Scotland and Ireland....Pages 255-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Paternalism and deference....Pages 269-274
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Oppressions, freedoms, and their politico-legal context....Pages 275-286
The texture of rural society in parts of Britain and Ireland....Pages 287-297
Back Matter....Pages 298-313