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An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation, and female assertiveness that takes place one year after the liberation of the empire's serfs.Upending Russian literary clichés of female passivity and rural gentry benightedness, Sofia Khvoshchinskaya centers her story on a common-sense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate. The antithesis of the thoughtful, intellectual, and self-denying young heroines created by Khvoshchinskaya's male peers, especially Ivan Turgenev, seventeen-year-old Olenka ultimately helps her mother overcome a sense of duty to her "betters" and leads the two to triumph over the urbanites' financial, amorous, and matrimonial machinations.Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and her writer sisters closely mirror Britain's Brontës, yet Khvoshchinskaya's work contains more of Jane Austen's wit and social repartee, as well as an intellectual engagement reminiscent of Elizabeth Gaskell's condition-of-England novels. Written by a woman under a male pseudonym, this brilliant and entertaining exploration of gender dynamics on a post-emancipation Russian estate offers a fresh and necessary point of comparison with the better-known classics of nineteenth-century world literature.

Country life --- Gentry --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Rural life --- Manners and customs --- History

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Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped - both materially and imaginatively - by parliamentary enclosure and a bundle of other new practices. Outside the Midlands too, local landscapes were remodelled in line with the improving ideals of the era. Yet while we know a great deal about the men who pushed forward schemes for enclosure and sponsored agricultural improvement, far less is known about the role played by female landowners and farmers and their contributions to landscape change. Drawing on examples from across Georgian England, Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830 offers a detailed study of elite women s relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women s role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women s place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. --

Women landowners --- Women in agriculture --- Gentry --- Gentry. --- Women in agriculture. --- Women landowners. --- History --- 1700-1899. --- Great Britain. --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Farm women --- Agriculture --- Landowners --- women --- estate --- income

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Remittance men --- British --- Immigrants --- Gentry --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- History. --- Canada, Western --- Great Britain --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Western Canada --- Northwest, Canadian --- Emigration and immigration

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Jan Broadway provides a survey of local history activity in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England and considers the practicalities of doing so in the period. She also relates the historiography with the gentry culture of the period, showing how the past influenced contemporary society and attitudes.

Gentry --- History --- Great Britain --- History, Local. --- Historiography. --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Elizabethan England. --- Elizabethan gentry. --- Tudor period. --- didactic history. --- early Stuart period. --- genealogical history. --- gentry consumers. --- gentry interest. --- local history. --- local-history writing. --- medieval period. --- regional networks. --- religious status. --- social status. --- topographical history.

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Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the Revolutionary elite often seemed as determined to squash democracy after the war as they were to support it before. Centering on Pennsylvania, the symbolic and logistical center of the Revolution, Bouton shows how this radical shift in ideology spelled tragedy for hundreds of common people. Leading up to the Revolution, Pennsylvanians were united

Democracy --- Gentry --- Statesmen --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Public officers --- Gentry, Landed --- Landed gentry --- Squires --- Upper class --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- History --- Pennsylvania --- United States --- Pensilvania --- Staat Pennsylvania --- Štatu Pennsylvanie --- Stanu Pennsylvania --- Stato di Pennsylvania --- Vysomene Valstijos Pennsylvania --- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania --- Ḳommonṿelṭ of Pensilṿeynia --- Pennsylvaani --- Pennsilfaani --- Keystone State --- Quaker State --- ペンシルベニア州 --- Penshirubenia-shū --- ペンシルベニア --- Penshirubenia --- ペンシルヴェイニア州 --- Penshiruveinia-shū --- ペンシルヴェイニア --- Penshiruveinia --- ペンシルヴァニア州 --- Penshiruvania-shū --- ペンシルヴァニア --- Penshiruvania --- פנסילבניה --- Pensilvanyah --- Province of Pennsilvania --- Pennsilvania --- Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware --- Politics and government --- Social aspects. --- Influence.