landowning classes

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

He said it was inherent hi the old landowning classes and had been bred over the generations.

The conversation was mostly in Portuguese, a language in decline here, but still widely used among the landowning classes.

The landowning classes consistently predicted the demise of Britain's agriculture but, of course, it didn't happen.

As a result, the grip of the landowning classes, the Junkers, remained unbroken, especially in the eastern provinces.

The landowning classes saw the rise in wage levels as a sign of social upheaval and insubordination, and reacted with coercion.

It slowly led to a shift in political power away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists.

Working conditions were often unsafe, and employment was uncertain, but some industrialists grew rich, rivalling the wealth and power of the older landowning classes.

As with their English counterparts, their ultimate objective was to re-establish the influence of the landowning classes at the expense of the crown.

The primary meaning of "landed gentry" encompassed those members of the landowning classes who were not members of the peerage.

Men like Wood, Speight and Jones prospered due to the popularity of alcohol as the wealth of the landowning classes increased.

A savage Tory government cracked down mercilessly on protesters and (through the Corn Laws) put the interests of the landowning classes before the needs of the people.

The elite landowning classes, such as Rajputs and Bhumihar Brahmins, now sought to present themselves as flagbearers of the ancient Hindu tradition.

Introduced by aristocratic and landowning classes, they had the dual purpose of restricting access of "undesirable" classes to public spaces and of ensuring a labor pool.

Much of the storytelling of the first half of the 19th century reflected the social struggle between the poor peasantry and the landowning classes in Moldova and Wallachia.

It is an outstanding display of nineteenth- and twentieth-century funerary art and architecture, with private family crypts of the bourgeoisie and mausolea of the landowning classes.

But the criterion is money, while as late as the early 1950's "an employee could not apply for membership," which was restricted to the professional and landowning classes, Miss Farahad said.

Barry kept an interest in the study of landowning classes throughout his career, and was also to the fore in rethinking the history of the civil wars and the Cromwellian Protectorate (1653-59).

This economic system, which allowed the landowning classes to take a disproportionate share of the productive capacity of the economy, was based upon traditional craft skills using fairly primitive tools and it was labour intensive.

Conversely, the idea of losing livestock to predators such as the lynx is going to strike confusion into the landowning classes and prompt them to say such ideas are “misconceived” — as they duly have done.

The effect was to keep the price of bread artificially high in the interests of the landowning classes, and it was of course to be a running sore for the government for the next generation or more.

After the rebellion, the landowning classes, defeated but still pressed economically in the new British Raj, attempted to treat their tenants and labourers as people of lowly birth and to demand unpaid labour from them.

By the 1840s the house had been leased out, first to George Hodges and his family, and then to William Urwick and to Robert Marston, all important members of the local landowning classes.

Although not necessarily of the landowning classes - as a result, perhaps, of lack of a male heir - many families' titles/styles have not been inherited and therefore many families' past status became dissolved.

However, his election caused concern among the country's wealthy and landowning classes, who feared state expropriation and nationalisation of their property, as well as far-right groups, who claimed it would spark a race war.