The Disappearance of the Small Landowner (Classic Reprint): Ford Lectures, 1909: Ford Lectures, 1909 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The Disappearance of the Small Landowner surveys how England’s small landowners declined and how this shift shaped farming, society, and policy. It also places England alongside France, Belgium, and Denmark to show similar pressures at work in Europe.

Built from lecture material, it outlines how enclosure, land laws, and economic change altered ownership and farming across centuries. It connects the rise of a commercial aristocracy to local governance, and it compares national patterns to explain why the small owner faded from the countryside.

• How enclosure policies changed landholding patterns and farm practice.


• The role of English land laws and inheritance in shaping property ownership.


• Connections between agriculture, industry, and rising wealth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


• Comparative look at land ownership in France, Belgium, Denmark, and beyond.

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