List of figures and illustrations List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Law as Property - Solicitors, the Land Market and Legal Reform: 1. Solicitors: profile of a profession 2. A Benthamite project: land-law reform 1826-1870 3. Lawyers and Liberals 1870-1895 4. Solicitors and the property cycle 1895-1925 5. Benthamism blunted 1895-1925 Part II. Dimensions of Tenure: 6. Clergy, corporations and junior property professions 7. Landowners and entrepreneurs: Domesday revisited 8. Mortgagees 9. The ramparts of property Part III. Tenure and Taxation 1850-1900 10. Banners or spoils? The doctrines of taxation 11. The country versus the city in Parliament 1850-1885 12. Henry George and local taxation 1885-1895 13. Mr Goschen's finance 1887-1892 14. Doles for squire and parson 1895-1902 Part IV. Municipal Enterprise and Private Capital: 15. towns against the Tories 1890-1902 Forging a weapon - the taxation of land values 1901-1906 17. The property cycle in London 1892-1912 18. Property values, local taxation and local politics Part V. Edwardian Climax 1906-1914 19. Towards the People's Budget 1906-1909 20. Romantic residues 21. Back to the land 22. People's Budget and rural land campaign 1909-1914 23. The urban question again 1910-1914 Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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