Book Description
This book presents an innovative study on the history and impact of landed property, urban development and taxation between 1870-1914.
Author : Avner Offer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1981-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521224144
This book presents an innovative study on the history and impact of landed property, urban development and taxation between 1870-1914.
Author : Mieke van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004321195
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under international law of former colonial States is addressed. Such a legal responsibility would presuppose the violation of the international law that was applicable at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in the context of the acquisition of territory and the expansion of empire, mainly through extending sovereignty rights and, subsequently, intervening in the internal affairs of African political entities.
Author : Alison Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108850685
Principles of Property Law offers a critical and contextual analysis of fundamental property law concepts and principles, providing students with the necessary tools to enable them to make sense of English land law rules in the context of real world applications. This new book adopts a contextual approach, placing the core elements of a qualifying law degree property and land law course in the context of general property principles and practices as they have developed in the UK and other jurisdictions in response to a changing societal relationship with a range of tangible and intangible things. Also drawing on concepts of property developed by political and legal theorists, economists and environmentalists, Principles of Property Law gives students a clear understanding of how property law works, why it matters and how the theory connects with the real world. Suitable for undergraduate law students studying property and land law in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as postgraduate students seeking an accessible analysis of property law as part of a course in law, land administration, environmental law or development studies.
Author : Michael P. Smith
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412818889
Breaking Chains
Author : Duncan Tanner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521530538
Dr Tanner utilises extensive data from the respective party records to examine the nature of the Liberal and Labour parties prior to 1914.
Author : Angus Hawkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191044148
Victorian Britain is often described as an age of dawning democracy and as an exemplar of the modern Liberal state; yet a hereditary monarchy, a hereditary House of Lords, and an established Anglican Church survived as influential aspects of national public life with traditional elites assuming redefined roles. After 1832, constitutional notions of 'mixed government' gradually gave way to the orthodoxy of 'parliamentary government', shaping the function and nature of political parties in Westminster and the constituencies, as well as the relations between them. Following the 1867-8 Reform Acts, national political parties began to replace the premises of 'parliamentary government'. The subsequent emergence of a mass male electorate in the 1880s and 1890s prompted politicians to adopt new language and methods by which to appeal to voters, while enduring public values associated with morality, community and evocations of the past continued to shape Britain's distinctive political culture. This gave a particularly conservative trajectory to the nation's entry into the twentieth century. This study of British political culture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century examines the public values that informed perceptions of the constitution, electoral activity, party partisanship, and political organization. Its exploration of Victorian views of status, power, and authority as revealed in political language, speeches, and writing, as well as theology, literature, and science, shows how the development of moral communities rooted in readings of the past enabled politicians to manage far-reaching change. This presents a new over-arching perspective on the constitutional and political transformations of the Victorian age.
Author : Rebecca Searle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786616262
In History of the Housing Crisis, Rebecca Searle offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, telling three stories that are central to understanding the contemporary crisis. The first explores the growth of owner occupation and how this was fostered by generations of parliamentarians as they wrested to contain the disruptive potential of democratization. The rise and fall of council housing is traced in the second story, which documents how a rent strike organized by Glasgow women forced the introduction of rent controls and council house building. Finally, the third story details the surprising legacy of the strikes, which was the boost they gave to the housing finance industry. Searle charts how successive property booms were fueled by lenders using financial mechanisms to displace risk to extend loans to lower-earning households. Rising interest rates placed strain on overextended borrowers and as boom turned to bust, wider economic turbulence ensued. Today we sit upon the largest housing bubble yet seen. As interest rates creep up, this book offers a timely intervention on how housing policy could better house the people.
Author : Alex Windscheffel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Conservatism
ISBN : 9780861932887
First detailed investigation into the popular dimensions of late-Victorian London Conservatism.
Author : Ranald Michie
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811270740
This book addresses the divide that exists between the reality of finance and the image it projects. A functioning financial system is an essential feature of a modern economy, providing it with money, credit, capital, and investments. Conversely, those who provide this essential service are neither respected nor trusted. The causes and consequences of this divide is explored using the British experience from 1800 to the present, drawing upon a mixture of factual evidence and contemporary fiction. Nothing of this scale has been attempted before and this is the product of 50 years of research.
Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198732090
Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951.In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in an increasingly global economy. The First World War marked a turning point, as globalization went into reverse and Britain shifted to 'insular capitalism'.Rather than emphasising the decline of the British economy, this book stresses modernity and the growth of new patterns of consumption in areas such as the service sector and the leisure industry.