Land and Society in Edwardian Britain (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Land and Society in Edwardian Britain (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) Book

Lloyd George's 'New domesday' initiated in 1910 yields valuable insights into Edwardian Britain. This original volume, based on new research into primary sources, presents a standard source of reference to this diverse material. Part I deals with the administration of the survey; Part II with themes such as social structures, rural society, and comparisons with other historical records. Dr Short's study will be of special use not only to historical geographers, economists and anthropologists, but also to local historians and genealogists.Read More

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    This revealing new book presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10 was the "New Domesday" of landownership and land values. This documentation, long locked away in the Inland Revenue's offices, became available to the public in the late 1970s. Dr. Short offers both a coherent overview and a standard source of reference to this valuable archive. Part I is concerned with the processes of assembling the material and its style of representation; Part II with suggested themes and locality studies. A final chapter places this new material in the context of discourses of state intervention in landed society prior to the Great War.

  • 0521570352
  • 9780521570350
  • Brian Short
  • 7 April 1997
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 398
  • illustrated edition
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