Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs - Essays for Sir John Habakkuk (Hardcover)

Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs explores a number of important themes in modern social and economic history. Its wide range of original studies by distinguished historians throws fresh light on the developing connections between landed and business classes and between the economies on both sides of the Atlantic. The subject matter ranges from French and British landowners as agricultural improvers to the financing of American railroads, from married women's property to the effects of robots on unemployment. The volume as a whole adds much to our knowledge of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.