Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs: Essays for Sir John Habakkuk

by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson (Editor)

Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs explores a number of important themes in modern social and economic history. Its wide range of original studies by distinguished historians throws fresh light on the developing connections between landed and business classes and between the economies on both sides of the Atlantic. The subject matter ranges from French and British landowners as agricultural improvers to the financing of American railroads, from married women's property to the effects of robots on unemployment. The volume as a whole adds much to our knowledge of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

328 pages, Hardcover

First published October 27, 1994

About the author

Francis Michael Longstreth (F.M.L.) Thompson is a British historian specializing in 19th and 20th century British social history. He was educated at Bootham School, York and Queens College, Oxford, where he took his Ph.D. in 1956. He was Reader in Economic History at University College London from 1963 until 1968 and was Professor of Modern History at Bedford College from 1968 until 1977. From 1977 until 1990 he was director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and he served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1989 to 1993.