This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive
publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many
journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book
English Landed Society.Volume 1 Contents: Victorian England: the
horse-drawn society. Inaugural lecture as Professor of Modern
History, Bedford College, 1970; The end of a great estate, Economic
History Review, 2nd ser. 8, (1955); The land market in the
nineteenth century, Oxford Economic Review, new. Ser. 9 (1957);
English landownership: The Ailesbury Trust, 1832-56, Economic
History Review, 2nd ser. 11 (1958); English Great Estates In The
19th Century, 1790-1914, First International Conference of Economic
Historians, Stockholm, 1960; Land and Politics in England in the
nineteenth century, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,
5th ser. 15 (1965); The social distribution of landed property in
England since the sixteenth century, Economic History Review, 2nd
ser. 19 (1968); The Second Agricultural Revolution, 1815-1880,
Economic History Review, 1, 4, 1968; Landownership and economic
growth in England in the eighteenth century, from E.L. Jones and
S.J. Woolf (eds.) , Agrarian change and economic development: the
historical problems (1969); Nineteenth-century horse sense,
Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 29 (1976); Social control in
Victorian England, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 34
(1981).Horses and hay in Britain, 1830-1918, from F.M.L. Thompson
(ed.), Horses in European economic history: a preliminary
canter(British Agricultural History Society, 1983); English landed
society in the nineteenth century, from Pat Thane, Geoffrey
Crossick and Roderick Floud (eds.), The power of the past: essays
for Eric Hobsbawm (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984);
Aristocracy, gentry, and the middle classes in Britain, 1750-1850,
from Adolf M. Birke and Lothar Kettenacker (eds.), Burgertum, Adel;
und Monarchie (Munich, 1989).
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