Property and Politics, 1870-1914 Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England

Name: Property and Politics, 1870-1914 Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England
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ISBN: 9780521129985

ISBN-10: 0521129982

ISBN-13: 9780521129985

Edition: 2010

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List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of figures and illustrations


List of tables


Preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



Law as Property - Solicitors, the Land Market and Legal Reform



Solicitors: profile of a profession



A Benthamite project: land-law reform 1826-1870



Lawyers and Liberals 1870-1895



Solicitors and the property cycle 1895-1925



Benthamism blunted 1895-1925



Dimensions of Tenure



Clergy, corporations and junior property professions



Landowners and entrepreneurs: Domesday revisited



Mortgagees



The ramparts of property



Tenure and Taxation 1850-1900



Banners or spoils? The doctrines of taxation



The country versus the city in Parliament 1850-1885



Henry George and local taxation 1885-1895



Mr Goschen's finance 1887-1892



Doles for squire and parson 1895-1902



Municipal Enterprise and Private Capital



towns against the Tories 1890-1902


Forging a weapon - the taxation of land values 1901-1906



The property cycle in London 1892-1912



Property values, local taxation and local politics



Edwardian Climax 1906-1914



Towards the People's Budget 1906-1909



Romantic residues



Back to the land



People's Budget and rural land campaign 1909-1914



The urban question again 1910-1914


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index