Ten essays by scholars who have been influenced by the specialist in the history of British landed society, who retired in 1990. The topics include the rivalry between landed and other gentry, the Servants Tax of 1777, attitudes toward foreign farming, agricultural laborers and the third Reform Act in Suffolk, the political economy of death duties, the political extremism of Willoughby de Broke and Walter Long, golf and Edwardian politics, and mobility after the horse. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR