Property and Politics 1870–1914

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.