TY - BOOK AU - Turner,Michael Edward AU - Beckett,J.V. AU - Afton,B. TI - Agricultural rent in England, 1690-1914 SN - 0585031568 AV - HD1930.E5 T87 1997eb U1 - 333.33/55/0942 20 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Farm rents KW - England KW - History KW - Farm income KW - Agriculture KW - Taxation KW - Landlord and tenant KW - Agricultural wages KW - Economic aspects KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Real Estate KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - cct KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-339) and index; Two examples of contemporary rent books -- 1. Agricultural rent in England -- 2. Contemporary views of rent in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England -- 3. The current state of knowledge -- 4. The determining parameters of a rent index -- 5. Constructing the rent index I: estate records -- 6. Constructing the rent index II: government inquiries -- 7. Constructing the rent index III: other studies -- 8. An English agricultural rent index, 1690-1914 -- 9. Rent arrears and regional variations -- 10. The rent index and agricultural history I: the long term -- 11. The rent index and agricultural history II: the short term -- Appendix 1. Sources of the rent index N2 - This is a study of agricultural rent in England from c. 1690 to the First World War. It concentrates on the mechanisms by which rent was paid by tenants to their landlords and builds up a rent index that provides a definitive picture of the pattern of rent over the period. The book adds a critical dimension to our understanding of English agricultural history through the period of the so-called agricultural revolution, and as such will help us understand more fully the economic history of the period UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2397 ER -