(1) From the first decades of English settlement in the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies to the end of the seventeenth century, norms of landholding were established and then maintained by both the English and the Indians.(2) Clear title to land was the crucial aspect of seventeenth century landholding .(3) Patterns of landholding and inheritance varied between these units of land.(4) In patterns of landholding , serf ownership, and use of property, Marrese also finds more similarities than differences between noblewomen and men.(5) Although we do not know the exact extent of any villa estates in Britain, several attempts have been made to reconstruct the sort of landholding that the villa economy depended upon.(6) Her most satisfying accomplishment in this regard comes in the chapter on the ground rent strikes of the 1920s, which had a lasting effect in limiting the commercialization of urban landholding .(7) under the reform private landholding was restricted(8) Early in the socialist period, the nationalization of industries, commerce, and most services, along with the forced collectivization of agrarian landholding , brought about the end of private property.(9) The Loch Katrine property is the largest single landholding taken into Forestry Commission management for more than 30 years.(10) The village was subsequently rebuilt mostly on the land, with complex repercussions for questions of intra-village landholding .(11) The legislation included a prohibition of the sale of peasant land to non-peasants, and a maximum allowable landholding : it was not intended to create a few big peasant landowners.(12) Several of the chapters concentrate on landholding , labor relations, and the family from the mid-nineteenth century up to the mid-twentieth.(13) Finally, we consider the penal laws, which denied the Catholic Irish civil entitlements and placed severe restrictions on education and landholding .(14) Patterns of landholding (poor highlands in Catholic hands, fertile lowlands in Protestant), even down to the level of family farms, have been stable over generations.(15) The Ulster Plantation was designed to reshape the political, economic and social landscape of Ulster, and, in many respects, it did just that, by changing irrevocably the pattern of settlement and landholding in the province.(16) This volume, with its focus on labor relations, landholding , and the local, does not address at any length some other fundamental approaches to research on coffee production in the history of Latin America.
