TY - BOOK ID - 77880579 TI - The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 : aristocratic decline, estate management and land reform PY - 2010 SN - 1282749919 9786612749919 0748642676 9780748642670 9780748640324 0748640320 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Administration of estates KW - Land use, Rural KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - Aristocracy KW - Aristocrats KW - Upper class KW - Nobility KW - Rural land use KW - Land use KW - Agriculture KW - Administration KW - Estates, Administration of KW - Real property KW - History KW - Sutherland family. KW - Sutherland (Scotland) KW - Sutherland, Scot. KW - Sutherland (Highland Region, Scotland) KW - Rural conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880579 AB - From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of World War I, the Sutherland Estate was the largest landed estate in western Europe; at 1.1 million acres, the ducal family owned almost the entire county of Sutherland as well as a further 30,000 acres in England. The estate was owned by the dukes of Sutherland, who were among the richest patrician landowners of the period; from the early nineteenth century, however, the family were shadowed by their reputation as great clearance landlords, something that would come back to haunt them throughout the coming decades.This book:studies the workings ER -