Agricultural Rent in England, 1690-1914 (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction; 1. Agricultural rent in England; 2. Contemporary views of rent in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England; 3. The current state of knowledge; 4. The determining parameters of a rent index; 5. Constructing the rent index I: estate records; 6. Constructing the rent index II: government inquiries; 7. Constructing the rent index III: other studies; 8. An English agricultural rent index 1690?1914; 9. Rent arrears and regional variations; 10. The rent index and agricultural history I: the long term; 11. The rent and agricultural history II: the short term; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.