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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"Gentry"”.
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THE COLTMANS OF HAGNABY, LINCOLNSHIRE. A Study of Minor Landed Gentry
… This overview of one example of 18th century gentry suggested that the Coltman family did not fit within Professor Mingay’s generalisation (i.e. undistinguished, obscure, environmentally circumscribed) for they were revealed as well-travelled, certainly distinguished within their own …
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
Abstract The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360 The topic of this dissertation is the gentry of Lancashire in the years from 1298 to 1361. It is a prosopographical study involving a limited number of prominent families, selected on the basis of status, tenure and …
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Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success
… enumerates well over four hundred middling and gentry Cumbrian men and women who travelled to and sojourned in the East Indies as well as a host of Cumbrians whose East Indies interests were operated from the British Isles. There were many more Cumbrians implicated in those East Indies ventures …
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Social mobility, marriage and kinship among some gentry and yeoman families of Wantage Hundred, c. 1520 - c. 1670
The core of this thesis is the study of 12 gentry and yeoman families resident in Wantage Hundred between 1522 and 1670. Particular attention will be paid to the 4 main strategies of land acquisition, marriage, office-holding and education that could be adopted by each family group for advancement. …
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The Ryans of Inch and their world: a Catholic gentry family from dispossession to integration, c.1650-1831
… status as members of the landowning Catholic gentry during the period c.1650 to 1831.
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Tipping in: School integration in gentrifying neighborhoods
… study is to examine the school choice process of Gentry Parents --white, middle and upper-middle class, highly-educated parents living in gentrifying neighborhoods -- to determine how, through the compounding effect of their many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying …
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Yorkshire politics, 1658-1688.
… the attitudes and activities of the county's gentry, their relationship with each other, the acquisition and exercise of their power In the locality and their political relationship with the crown In parliament and in the locality. In order to investigate the nature of the gentry's authority …
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Chinese Muslims in the Qing Empire: public culture, identities, and law, 1644—1911
… the government often relied on the locally based gentry to provide semi-official governance. Therefore, Chinese Muslim gentry participated actively in religious activities of jiaofang as Muslims, and meanwhile, adopted the identity as gentry, cooperated with the government, and managed local …
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Place names in the northwest counties of Missouri
… Holt, Nodaway, Andrew, Buchanan, Worth, Gentry, DeKalb, Clinton, Harrison, Daviess, and Caldwell
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Identity and Social Structure in Early Modern Politics: How Opportunities induced Witch Trials in Scotland, 1563 - 1736
… hand and the conspicuous over-representation of gentry on the other hand has hitherto remained a puzzle. My dissertation solves this puzzle by showing that witch trials emerge out of identity activated through the opening of opportunities for upward mobility among the gentry. Using a remarkable …
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Landed society in mid-eighteenth century County Down
… persona of the eighteenth-century provincial gentry class in Ireland and so provide a background to the burgeoning historiography that is emerging on this topic.
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Gavelkind and the Land Market in Somerden Hundred, Kent, 1550-1700
… notable for its local nature. Yeomen and local gentry were overall purchasers at the expense of aristocracy and tradesmen, but yeomen prospered more in the late sixteenth century, and were losing ground to gentry at the end of the seventeenth. There was a rise in mortgage transactions after …
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Functional Goods and Fancies: The Production and Consumption of Consumer Goods in Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham c. 1680-1780
… the role of indigenous landowners and merchant-gentry in the consumer industries, and the movement of skilled craftsmen to the region. Chapter Four focuses on the products manufactured in the local industries. It details the cultural changes that encouraged the creation of new types of consumer …
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Rural sports in Wales, c.1750-c.1900: continuity and change
… by arduous daily labour. Conversely, the gentry enjoyed ample free time, much of which was spent practising exclusive leisure pursuits. While these class boundaries sometimes overlapped, in that particular sports were socially inclusive, in reality the gentry nurtured their own activities …
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The Evolution of Gentility in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial Virginia
… The analysis demonstrates that the English gentry did not lose a class struggle with the commercial ranks as much as they were overwhelmed by economic changes they could not understand. The southern landed class established an economy based on production of cash crops and thus adapted better …
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Gentlemen landowners and the middle classes of Bromley: the transfer of power and wealth? 1840-1914
… power, influence and wealth held by the landed gentry and the middle classes during the period 1840 to 1914. This was accomplished by focusing on the town of Bromley, Kent, which historians and modern commentators alike have championed as the archetypal middle-class suburb. The thesis begins …
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Noble Farmers: The Provincial Landowner in the Russian Cultural Imagination
… following the 1762 Manifesto that freed the gentry from obligatory state service. The material suggests that a prominent strain in the Russian novelistic tradition that took the provincial landowner as a central object of representation developed in the course of a series of encounters …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
… parts of Europe. The poetry shows that the Welsh gentry at that time were familiar with many of the themes surrounding death and commemoration so obvious in European visual art such as the macabre and the fate of both the body and the soul after death.<br/><br/>With war, famine and disease being …
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Sense, Sensibility, Sympathy, Social Class Upheaval in Jane Austen’s Novels
… and how those changes were received by the gentry. By looking at how Austen’s characters react to, reflect on, and work around these boundaries, I recover a better understanding of Regency England society’s feelings and response to these changes as well.</p>
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