كتاب
A new lease on life: landlords, tenants and immigrants in Ireland and Canada
| العنوان: | A new lease on life: landlords, tenants and immigrants in Ireland and Canada |
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| المؤلفون: | Wilson, Catharine Anne, 1958- |
| بيانات النشر: | Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. |
| سنة النشر: | 1993 |
| سلاسل: | McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Irish -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century., Immigrants -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century., Landlord and tenant -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century., Landlord and tenant -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century., Land tenure -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century., Land settlement -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century., History. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Down (Northern Ireland) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century., Amherst Island (Ont.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century. |
| الوصف: | A New Lease on Life is a study of landlords and tenants whose aspirations, opportunities, and destinies spanned the Atlantic. In this richly detailed history of migration and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Wilson focuses on the landlord-tenant relationship and how it changed in the Irish and North American context. Wilson reconstructs the family circumstances and estate management of two landlords, Stephen Moore, third earl of Mount Cashell, and Major Robert Perceval Maxwell. Each owned several estates in Ireland and consecutively owned the estate of Amherst Island in Ontario. She examines how the management of these estates changed over time and highlights the differences between management in the north and south of Ireland. She considers the form the landlord-tenant relationship took in the New World to determine whether tenancy arrangements in the New World offered landlords an opportunity to start afresh or, instead, were influenced by the traditions and financial circumstances of their Irish estates. The study then follows more than one hundred tenant families who, between 1820 and 1860, migrated from County Down to Amherst Island. Wilson discusses why these families emigrated, and what it meant socially and economically to be a tenant in the New World, where most farmers were freeholders. Wilson sets her study firmly in the framework of British, Irish, and American writing on land tenure and concludes that both landlords and tenants were more successful in the New World. Wealth and land ownership might be slow in materializing, but the opportunity, the choices, and the attainment of security were all greater than they had been in Ireland. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Contains "... an examination of immigrants on two interrelated levels: those of landlord and tenant. Part One is a study of landlordism on both sides of the ocean. It is a reconstruction of the family circumstances and estate management of two landlords, Stephen Moore, third earl of Mount Cashell, and Major Robert Perceval Maxwell. They each owned large estates in the north and the south of Ireland, and an estate in the province of Upper Canada (Ontario) known as Amherst Island. ... Part Two is a study of tenants on both sides of the ocean. It follows over one hundred families who migrated between 1820 and 1860 from the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Ireland, to Amherst Island, where they rented land from Mount Cashell and Maxwell." -- Introd. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn926099640 ocm28216483 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-7735-1117-0 0-7735-1117-2 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.004113246.7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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