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.