Property and Politics 1870–1914
Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:11th Feb '10
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This book presents an innovative study on the history and impact of landed property, urban development and taxation between 1870–1914.
This book presents an innovative study on the history and impact of landed property, urban development and taxation between 1870-1914.Landed and urban property exercised a powerful influence on social policy, urban development and national party politics in Victorian and Edwardian England. This book presents an innovative study of the economic, legal and social foundations of the British State. It contains a history of the law of land transfer, estimates of landed property and landed debt, and descriptions of the urban property market and of the impact of taxation upon urban development. Agrarian and urban property owners embraced conflicting doctrines of taxation. These doctrines, held rigidly for many decades, helped to form the identies of the Conservative and Liberal parties, and determine their policies in office. This book also analyses the stormy period from 1909 to 1914 where the urban crisis was compounded of collapsing property values, rising taxes and unsatisfied social demands as well as Lloyd George's provocative budgets and his ambitious and abortive land schemes.
ISBN: 9780521129985
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: 680g
464 pages