New Lease on Life Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada

Name: New Lease on Life Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada
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ISBN: 9780773511170

ISBN-10: 0773511172

ISBN-13: 9780773511170

Edition: 1994

Authors: Catherine Anne Wilson

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In Part 1 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 the estate known as 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, particularly in Counties Down, Antrim, and Cork. She looks at 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…

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Introduction



Lord Mount Cashell: an Improving and Evangelical Landlord



His Lordship's Adventure Abroad



The Famine and His Lordship's Demise



Major Maxwell's Irish Estates: a New Kind of Management



The Ards Peninsula



The Emigrants and Their Settlement on Amherst Island



What It Meant to Be a Tenant on Amherst Island


Conclusion


Appendix: Amherst Island Immigrant Families from the Ards


Notes


A Note on Sources


Index