Estate Management in Eighteenth-century England: The Building of the Leveson-Gower Fortune
- ISBN-10
- 0901050857
- ISBN-13
- 9780901050854
- Category
- Administration of estates
- Pages
- 303
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Author
- J. Ross Wordie
Description
A case study of the role of the landed aristocracy in the political, social and economic life the nation during the 18th century, through close examination of the rise of the Leveson-Gowers (to become dukes of Sutherland by the 19th ...
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