Main entry:

Offer, Avner.

Title & Author:

Property and politics, 1870-1914 : landownership, law, ideology, and urban development in England / Avner Offer.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Description:

xviii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index..
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-428) and index.
Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. Dimensions of Tenure -- Clergy, corporations and junior property professions -- Landowners and entrepreneurs: Domesday revisited -- Mortgagees -- The ramparts of property -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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 -- Pt. 5. 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
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Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521224144
9780521224147

Subject:

Land tenure England History.
Real property England History.
Propriété foncière Angleterre Histoire.
Biens réels Angleterre Histoire.
Land tenure.
Politics and government
Real property.
Eigentum
Landgoederen.
Bezit.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Politieke aspecten.
Land tenure Great Britain History.
Real property Great Britain History.
Great Britain Politics and government 1837-1901.
Great Britain Politics and government 1901-1936.
Gran Bretaña Política y gobierno 1837 1901.
Gran Bretaña Política y gobierno 1901 1936.
Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 1837-1901.
Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 1901-1936.
England.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 36255
Call No.: PO15128; ID:88-B7428
Status: Available