Thus, two unrelated lawyers (or landowners) were likely to have experienced more shared pressures of writing than a lawyer and his landowning cousin.
This encouraged many heirs of the landowning families to invest not just in the rural sector, but also in new areas of economic activity.
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 turned many scions of the landowning families towards the urban economy.
This process especially affected those landowning families with lesser landholdings and those with more numerous offspring.
Armed with an outline design the would-be landowning builder now came to the practical problem, the modern equivalent of hanging the ceiling paper.
The married couple included the daughter of a landowning family of one-time gentry elites and the son of a low-status family.
During summer 2002, a random sample of 39 households was selected for interviews from a listing of the total 176 landowning households.