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

Offer, Avner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521224144 ISBN 13: 9780521224147

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1981

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

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. It also analyses the stormy period from 1909 to 1914 where property values collapsed along with rising taxes and unsatisfied social demands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0521224144
• ISBN 13: 9780521224147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464