Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century. Over recent centuries England was increasingly occupied by landed estates run by locally dominant and nationally influential owners....

Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought."" So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an...