TY - BOOK AU - Cragoe, Matthew AU - Readman, Paul TI - The land question in Britain: 1750-1950 SN - 9780230203402 U1 - 333.3 CRA PY - 2010/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Land tenure - Great Britain - History - 20th century KW - Great Britain - Politics and government - 1714-1820 KW - Land tenure - Great Britain - History - 18th century KW - Land tenure - Great Britain - History - 19th century KW - Land reform - Great Britain - History - 20th century KW - Great Britain - Politics and government - 20th century KW - Land reform - Great Britain - History - 18th century KW - Great Britain - Politics and government - 1837-1901 KW - Land reform - Great Britain - History - 19th century N1 -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

; Machine generated contents note: List of Figures and Tables * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Notes Contributors * Introduction; M.Cragoe& P.Readman * The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration, and the Impact of Enclosure, c.1770-1850; I.Waites * Witnesses for the defence: the Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c.1815-1837; K.Beresford * Chartism and the Land: the mighty people's question; M.Chase * The Manchester School and the Landlords: the Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain; A.Howe * A contemptible mimic of the Irish: the Land Question in Victorian Wales; M.Cragoe * Setting the Heather on Fire: the Land Question in Scotland, 1850-1914; E.Cameron * Irish Land and British Politics; P.Bull * Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George; A.Taylor * London and the Land Question c.1880-1914; R.Quinault * The Edwardian Land Question; P.Readman * Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: the Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain; I.Packer * Land Reform and the English land Market, 1880-1925; J.Beckett & M.Turner * Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918-1950s; C.Griffiths* Epilogue: the Strange Death of the English Land Question; F.M.L.Thompson List of Figures and Tables * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Notes Contributors * Introduction; M.Cragoe& P.Readman * The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration, and the Impact of Enclosure, c.1770-1850; I.Waites * Witnesses for the defence: the Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c.1815-1837; K.Beresford * Chartism and the Land: the mighty people's question; M.Chase * The Manchester School and the Landlords: the Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain; A.Howe * A contemptible mimic of the Irish: the Land Question in Victorian Wales; M.Cragoe * Setting the Heather on Fire: the Land Question in Scotland, 1850-1914; E.Cameron * Irish Land and British Politics; P.Bull * Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George; A.Taylor * London and the Land Question c.1880-1914; R.Quinault * The Edwardian Land Question; P.Readman * Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: the Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain; I.Packer * Land Reform and the English land Market, 1880-1925; J.Beckett & M.Turner * Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918-1950s; C.Griffiths* Epilogue: the Strange Death of the English Land Question; F.M.L.Thompson N2 - "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 nationalisation of land after World War II, the fate of the land held the power to galvanize the attention of the nation"--Provided by publisher ER -