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Edited by Madge Dresser and Philip Ollerenshaw; pp. x + 246. Tiverton, Devon: Redcliffe Press, 1996, £17.95. Books of essays based around a theme are a useful way of overcoming [...]

The views of Sir John Habakkuk on the financial history of the dukes of Chandos, a title that lasted for seventy years conferred in 1719. The study points out that debt was an inherent part of the financial system; accidents of birth, death, and longevity also posed additional financial hazards.

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Martin Daunton. Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 438. $55.00. ISBN 0-521-80372-1. Whether we like it or not, taxation [...]

by Jeremy Burchardt (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 2002; pp. 287. 45 £). The long running debate about the condition of rural society in the 1830s and [...]

ed. Anne Orde (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2002; pp. 274. 35 £). Matthew, George, and the rather more shadowy James, Culley, were among the pioneers of English [...]

ed. Blake Tyson, from a transcript by Revd B. G. Fell (Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Soc., 2001; pp. 400. 40 £). Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal was [...]

ed. S. D. Smith (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. cxxxii+796. 65 £). Joseph Symson was a Kendal woollen merchant, who was mayor of the town in 1691 and 1709. Born [...]

by Christiana Payne; pp. xii + 219. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, $45.00, 30.00 £. In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries English farming passed through an [...]

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In 1750 approximately six or seven people in every ten derived their living directly or indirectly from the land: today only about one in fifty of the population is employed [...]