Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950

  • Book
  • © 2010

Overview

Editors:
  1. Matthew Cragoe

    1. University of Sussex, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Paul Readman

    1. King’s College London, UK

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 89.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Matthew Cragoe, Paul Readman
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration and the Impact of Enclosure, c. 1770–1850

    • Ian Waites
    Pages 19-36

  4. ‘Witnesses for the Defence’: The Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c. 1815–1837

    • Kathryn Beresford
    Pages 37-56

  5. Chartism and the Land: ‘The Mighty People’s Question’

    • Malcolm Chase
    Pages 57-73

  6. The ‘Manchester School’ and the Landlords: The Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain

    • Anthony Howe
    Pages 74-91

  7. ‘A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish’: The Land Question in Victorian Wales

    • Matthew Cragoe
    Pages 92-108

  8. Setting the Heather on Fire: The Land Question in Scotland, 1850–1914

    • Ewen A. Cameron
    Pages 109-125

  9. Irish Land and British Politics

    • Philip Bull
    Pages 126-145

  10. Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George

    • Antony Taylor
    Pages 146-166

  11. London and the Land Question, c.1880–1914

    • Roland Quinault
    Pages 167-180

  12. The Edwardian Land Question

    • Paul Readman
    Pages 181-200

  13. Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: The Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain

    • Ian Packer
    Pages 201-218

  14. Land Reform and the English Land Market, 1880–1925

    • John Beckett, Michael Turner
    Pages 219-236

  15. Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918–1950s

    • Clare Griffiths
    Pages 237-256

  16. Epilogue: The Strange Death of the English Land Question

    • F. M. L. Thompson
    Pages 257-270

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 271-281
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Matthew Cragoe

  • King’s College London, UK

    Paul Readman

About the editors

JOHN BECKETT Professor of English Regional History, the University of Nottingham, UK KATHRYN BERESFORD Doctoral graduate, University College London, UK PHILIP BULL Associate Professor in History and Director of the Innovative Universities European Union Centre, LaTrobe University, Australia. EWEN CAMERON Reader in Scottish History, the University of Edinburgh, UK MALCOLM CHASE Professor of Social History, the University of Leeds, UK MATTHEW CRAGOE Professor of Modern British History, University of Sussex, UK CLARE GRIFFITHS Senior Lecturer in Modern History, the University of Sheffield, UK ANTHONY HOWE Professor of Modern History, the University of East Anglia, UK IAN PACKER Reader in History, the University of Lincoln, UK ROLAND QUINAULT Reader in History, London Metropolitan University, UK PAUL READMAN Senior Lecturer in Modern British History, King's College London, UK ANTONY TAYLOR Senior Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK F.M.L. THOMPSON Emeritus Professor of History, University of London, UK MICHAEL TURNER Professor of Economic History, the University of Hull, UK IAN WAITES Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, the University of Lincoln, UK.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation