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Rich landowning families in the area have clashed with government officials seeking to distribute their land.
He came from Germany's landowning aristocracy.
Most of them were economically dependent on patronage from landowning families for survival over the year, for employment, for credit or emergency expenses.
Only 13 per cent of the widows with landowning fathers inherited as daughters, while 51 per cent of those with landowning husbands inherited as widows.
For the landowning classes, the demonstration of investment of labour and capital had moral and political connotations through the trope of improvement.
In most of the borderland, village communities are dominated by landowning males who stay with their land and marry wives from nearby villages.
This also explains the absence of a rich landowning class who could invest in the development of towns.
Some registers have entries about landowning, such as the acreage held and the location of household plots, but many registers do not.
This article maintains that an earlier description of the socioeconomic elite as a landowning bourgeoisie is better illustrative of the fundamental characteristics of this group.
During summer 2002, a random sample of 39 households was selected for interviews from a listing of the total 176 landowning households.
The married couple included the daughter of a landowning family of one-time gentry elites and the son of a low-status family.
Armed with an outline design the would-be landowning builder now came to the practical problem, the modern equivalent of hanging the ceiling paper.
This process especially affected those landowning families with lesser landholdings and those with more numerous offspring.
This turned many scions of the landowning families towards the urban economy.
To return to the old conceptualisation of a landowning bourgeoisie is not, then, an invitation to close the debate but rather to reopen it.
This encouraged many heirs of the landowning families to invest not just in the rural sector, but also in new areas of economic activity.
Thus, two unrelated lawyers (or landowners) were likely to have experienced more shared pressures of writing than a lawyer and his landowning cousin.