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 2Contents: Rural society and
agricultural change in nineteenth-century Britain, from George
Grantham and Carol S. Leonard (eds.), Agrarian organisation in the
century of industrialisation: Europe, Russia, and North America
(Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1989); Life after death: how
successful nineteenth-century businessmen disposed of their
fortunes, Economic History Review, 2nd ser, 43 (1990); English
landed society in the twentieth century, 1, Property: collapse and
survival, (Presidential address), Transactions of the Royal
Historical Society, 5th ser. 40 (1990); English Landed Society in
the Twentieth Century. 1: Property: Collapse and Survival,
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., Vol. 40.,
1990; English landed society in the twentieth century, 2: new poor
and new rich, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th
ser. 1 (1991); English landed society in the twentieth century, 3,
Self help and outdoor relief, Transactions of the Royal Historical
Society, 6th ser. 2 (1992); English landed society in the twentieth
century, 4, Prestige without power? Transactions of the Royal
Historical Society, 6th ser. 3 (1993).Desirable properties: the
town and country connection in British society since the late
eighteenth century, Historical Research, 64 (1991); Stitching it
together again (Reply to W.D. Rubinstein), Economic History Review,
2nd ser. 45 (1992); Changing Perceptions of Land Tenure in Britain,
1750-1914, from Donald Winch and Patrick K. O'Brien (eds.), The
Political Economy of British Historical Experience 1688-1914
(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002); Moving frontiers and the
Fortunes of the Aristocratic Town 1830-1930, The London Journal,
Vol.2, No.1, 1995; The Land market, 1880-1925: A reappraisal
reappraised, The Agricultural History Journal, Vol.55, Part II,
2007; The Strange Death of the English Land question, from Matthew
Cragoe and Paul Readman (eds.), The Land Question in Britain,
1750-1950 (Houndsmill, Palgrave, 2010).
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