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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-339) and index
