In the first half of the nineteenth century, economic pressures on the large landowning classes increased noticeably.

"Are any of your ship's company of the landowning class as well?"

However the wealth may have been produced it is evident that it had created a rich landowning class.

Later when the Imperial Diet was established, many of those given the right to vote in the lower house belonged to this landowning class.

In the Late Empire the short-term interests of the rich landowning class were paramount.

He also suggested the establishment of a colonial peerage drawn from the landowning class.

Though theoretically free, most common people remained subjects of the landowning class, with few rights.

Also, their inmates may often have come from the ranks of the noble and landowning class.

There are practically no friendly pictures of the landowning class, for instance.

The availability of land played a crucial part in relations between the landowning class and those immediately concerned with its cultivation.