Landowners

South Africa’s history is characterised by injustice, from the dispossession of land belonging to the indigenous inhabitants during the colonial era, to the discriminatory laws under the apartheid government. Nowhere is this injustice more glaring than in the marginalisation of …

This thesis addresses the question of what happened to monastic estates in Wales following the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1540, when the majority of former monastic land in Wales was absorbed into the estates of secular Welsh elites, or uchelwyr. The lens th…

This thesis examines the evidence for the decline and survival of historic landed estates since the end of the nineteenth century. The focus is on the processes of adaptation undergone by those estates that have survived over the post-war period. These processes are described in…

The thesis attempts an investigation of social change and development within late medieval urban and landed society in North-East Scotland. Analysis has been concentrated on the social implications of the evidence produced by a study of the Aberdeen burgh property market in the …

Cyprus has been influenced by many people and races. Still scattered around are the remnants of previous civilizations with the most historical landmarks having been left by the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans and the Byzantine. From these civilizations many ancient monument…

This dissertation uses agent-based computer simulation to examine general processes that generate patterns of social organization among nomadic pastoral populations in Inner Asia. Of particular interest are processes related to the formation of nomadic states and empires, such a…