Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Notes on the Contributors ix
6. Map of the British and Irish Isles xii
7. Introduction 1
8. PART I Power and its Constructions on Landed Estates
9. 1 ‘Stirring and advancing times’: Landlords, Agents and Improvement on the Castle Howard Estate, 1826–66 17
10. 2 ‘Not a popular personage’: The Factor in Scottish Property Relations, c. 1870–1920 Ewen A. Cameron 39
11. 3 The Factor and Railway Promotion in the Scottish Highlands: The West Highland Railway 56
12. PART II The Transnational Land Agent: Managing Land in the Four Nations and Beyond
13. 4 Divisions of Labour: Inter-managerial Conflict among the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam Agents 75
14. 5 The Courtown Land Agents and Transnational Estate Management, 1850–1900 93
15. 6 Peter Fairbairn: Highland Factor and Caribbean Plantation Manager, 1792–1822 109
16. PART III Challenges and Catastrophe: The Land Agent under Fire
17. 7 The Tenant Right Agitation of 1849–50: Crisis and Confrontation on the Londonderry Estates in County Down 131
18. 8 Frustrations and Fears: The Impact of the Rebecca Riots on the Land Agent in Carmarthenshire, 1843 153
19. 9 The Evolution of the Irish Land Agent: The Management of the Blundell Estate in the Eighteenth Century 168
20. 10 ‘Between two interests’: Pennant A. Lloyd’s Agency of the Penrhyn Estate, 1860–77 184
21. PART IV Social Memory and the Land Agent
22. 11 John Campbell (‘Am Baillidh Mor’), Chamberlain to the 7th and 8th Dukes of Argyll: Tradition and Social Memory 203
23. 12 ‘Castle government’: The Psychologies of Land Management in Northern Scotland, c. 1830–90 225
24. Postscript
25. 13 The Land Agent in Fiction 241
26. 14 Poor Beasts 249
27. Index 256