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- catalog abstract ""In recent decades investigations into the 'land question' have been central to contemporary understanding of Irish Society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this ambitious historical inquiry - based on the manuscript records of over sixty landed estates and a wealth of published material - Martin Dowling uncovers the fascinating pre-history of the land question from its seventeenth-century origins to the dawn of the era of legislative reform."--Jacket. "Dowling focuses on the development of the anomalous 'Ulster Custom' of tenant right, by which tenants claimed property rights anterior to and more fundamental than their contracts with landlords, allowing them to exact a payment well in excess of the yearly rent from those who succeeded to their farms. By lending an attentive ear to the changing and conflicting interpretations of the meaning of tenant right, Dowling reveals the persistent contradictions in the Irish property system that were later to explode in the land war of the 1880s."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10804654.
- catalog coverage "Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Dowling focuses on the development of the anomalous 'Ulster Custom' of tenant right, by which tenants claimed property rights anterior to and more fundamental than their contracts with landlords, allowing them to exact a payment well in excess of the yearly rent from those who succeeded to their farms. By lending an attentive ear to the changing and conflicting interpretations of the meaning of tenant right, Dowling reveals the persistent contradictions in the Irish property system that were later to explode in the land war of the 1880s."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In recent decades investigations into the 'land question' have been central to contemporary understanding of Irish Society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this ambitious historical inquiry - based on the manuscript records of over sixty landed estates and a wealth of published material - Martin Dowling uncovers the fascinating pre-history of the land question from its seventeenth-century origins to the dawn of the era of legislative reform."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-377) and index.".
- catalog description "Map of Ulster and Environs -- pt. I. Context. 1. Tenant Right and Agrarian Capitalism -- pt. II. The Social Bases of Tenant Right. 2. Historicity. 3. Production. 4. Visuality. 5. The Advance of Estate Management -- pt. III. The End of Tenant Right. 6. Tenant Right and the Land Question.".
- catalog extent "viii, 388 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster, 1600-1870.".
- catalog identifier "0716525925 (hb)".
- catalog identifier "0716526565 (pb)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster, 1600-1870.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press,".
- catalog relation "Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster, 1600-1870.".
- catalog spatial "Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)".
- catalog subject "333.5/4/09416 21".
- catalog subject "HD1331.I73 D68 1999".
- catalog subject "Landlord and tenant Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) History.".
- catalog subject "Peasants Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Map of Ulster and Environs -- pt. I. Context. 1. Tenant Right and Agrarian Capitalism -- pt. II. The Social Bases of Tenant Right. 2. Historicity. 3. Production. 4. Visuality. 5. The Advance of Estate Management -- pt. III. The End of Tenant Right. 6. Tenant Right and the Land Question.".
- catalog title "Tenant right and agrarian society in Ulster, 1600-1870 / Martin W. Dowling.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".