The 'Land Question' occupied a central place in political and cultural debates in Britain for nearly two centuries. From parliamentary enclosure in the mid-eighteenth century to the fierce Labour party debate concerning the nationalization of land after World War Two, the fate of the land held the power to galvanize the attention of the nation.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2010

ISBN

9780230248472

Topic

History

Subtopic

British History

Index

History

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