Quotes About Landowning

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, but old landowning families with vast estates of fields and meadows.

and landowning class in their economic and political fortresses could well afford to be open-minded in order to keep the influx of Indian labor coming.

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

In Norman days far more definitely than in Saxon the governing class is a landowning class.