John Habbakuk,

Marriage, Debt and the Estates System: English Landownership 1650-1950 (1994). Definitive analysis of property management.

K. B. Macfarlane,

The Nobility of Later Medieval England (1973). Demythologizes the Wars of the Roses.

G. E. Mingay, The Gentry:

The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976).

Lawrence Stone,

The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641 (1965; abridged edn., 1967). Monumental if controversial backdrop to the Civil War.

Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone,

An Open Elite? England 1540-1880 (1984). (6-2) أيرلندا

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