The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
1 The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration and the Impact of Enclosure, c. 1770–1850......Page 34
2 ‘Witnesses for the Defence’: The Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c. 1815–1837......Page 52
3 Chartism and the Land: ‘The Mighty People’s Question’......Page 72
4 The ‘Manchester School’ and the Landlords: The Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain......Page 89
5 ‘A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish’: The Land Question in Victorian Wales......Page 107
6 Setting the Heather on Fire: The Land Question in Scotland, 1850–1914......Page 124
7 Irish Land and British Politics......Page 141
8 Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George......Page 161
9 London and the Land Question, c. 1880–1914......Page 182
10 The Edwardian Land Question......Page 196
11 Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: The Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain......Page 216
12 Land Reform and the English Land Market, 1880–1925......Page 234
13 Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918–1950s......Page 252
14 Epilogue: The Strange Death of the English Land Question......Page 272
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