| The the Management of a Major Ulster Estate in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Eighth Earl of Abercorn and His Irish Agents Volume 35 Contributor(s): Irish Academic Press, Irish Academic Pre (Author) |
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ISBN: 071652743X ISBN-13: 9780716527435 Publisher: Irish Academic Press OUR PRICE: $13.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2001 Annotation: James Hamilton, the eighth earl of Abercorn, preferred to live in a fine classical house built for him in Edinburgh in the 1960s by the eminent architect, Sir William Chambers, although he had considerable property about London and in Ireland. Although Abercorn was an absentee, the scale, the range and the substance of the correspondence he maintained with his Irish agents, reveals the extent and depth of his knowledge of life on the estates. Several agents kept him well informed and in the years between 1757 and the earls death in 1789, one of them, also named James Hamilton, wrote very detailed letters that enabled the earl to make decisions on a wide variety of matters. They cover changing relationships with tenants and undertenants, efforts to promote the economic and social development of the estate, and the problems of his agents in coping with food crises and natural disasters. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Real Estate - General - History | Europe - Ireland |
| Dewey: 333.540 |
| LCCN: 2001039574 |
| Series: Maynooth Studies in Irish Local History |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.3" W x 8.3" (0.22 lbs) 64 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
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| Publisher Description: James Hamilton, the eighth earl of Abercorn, preferred to live in a fine classical house built for him in Edinburgh in the 1960s by the eminent architect, Sir William Chambers, although he had considerable property about London and in Ireland. Although Abercorn was an absentee, the scale, the range and the substance of the correspondence he maintained with his Irish agents, reveals the extent and depth of his knowledge of life on the estates. Several agents kept him well informed and in the years between 1757 and the earl ? ? ? -s death in 1789, one of them, also named James Hamilton, wrote very detailed letters that enabled the earl to make decisions on a wide variety of matters. They cover changing relationships with tenants and undertenants, efforts to promote the economic and social development of the estate, and the problems of his agents in coping with food crises and natural disasters. |