Books in the Scotland's Land series

Scotland's Foreshore tells the story of the battle that took place during the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century between the Crown and private proprietors over the ownership of the foreshore.

This book brings together leading historians and writers on British and Irish rural history, to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, from c. 1700 to 1920.

'This is a very important and pioneering comparative study of land agents in Ireland and Britain, a class often reviled in historiography and literature. Ambitious in its scope and accessible in its scholarship, it is crammed with significant original details about the lives, social backgrounds, education, training, capabilities and weaknesses of a class central to Irish and British rural life in the long nineteenth century.'Terence Dooley, Maynooth UniversityExplores the role of land agents in Britain and its imperial territories between c. 1700 and 1920This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpicking the nature and processes of their power, The Land Agent explores who these men were and examines the wider significance of their roles - thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.Lowri Ann Rees is Lecturer in Modern History at Bangor University. Ciarán Reilly is based at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, Maynooth University. Annie Tindley is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University.Note change to credit lineCover image: Loch Glendhu, Sutherland by Oakley Cundall 2017Cover design:[EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3886-5Barcode

A stimulating review of contemporary land reform in Scotland