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During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a ""Greater Ireland"" spanning the Atlantic that profoundly impacted both Irish and American society. In A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America, Ely M. Janis closely examines the Irish National Land League, a transatlantic organization with strong support in Ireland and the United States. Founded in Ireland in 1879 against the backdrop of crop failure and agrarian unrest, the Land League pressured the British government to reform the Irish landholding system and allow Irish political self-rule. The League quickly spread to the United States, with hundreds of thousands of Irish Americans participating in branches in their local communities. As this ""Greater Ireland"" flourished, new opportunities arose for women and working-class men to contribute within Irish-American society. Exploring the complex interplay of ethnicity, class, and gender, Janis demonstrates the broad range of ideological, social, and political opinion held by Irish Americans in the 1880s. Participation in the Land League deeply influenced a generation that replaced their old county and class allegiances with a common cause, shaping the future of Irish-American nationalism.
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• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Transatlantic Origins of the Land League;
• 1. The "Uncrowned King of Ireland": Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 Mission to America;
• 2. "An Agitator of the Best Kind": Michael Davitt and the Rise of the Land League in the United States; Part II. The Effect of the Land League in the United States;
• 3. From Plymouth Rock to the Golden Gate: The Growth and Spread of the Land League in the United States.

• 4. "Ireland to Us Is Father and Mother and America Is the Wife": Conservative Irish-American Nationalism, the Land League, and the Quest for Respectability5. "Spreading the Light": Patrick Ford, Irish-American Radical Nationalism, and the Land League;
• 6. "Let Us Rise to Action": Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Ladies' Land League in the United States; Part III. The End of the Land League;
• 7. "Ireland Is Fighting Humanity's Battle": The No-Rent Manifesto, Land Nationalization, and the Radical Challenge in the United States.

• 8. The Road from Kilmainham Jail: The Death of the Land League and the Triumph of Conservative Irish Nationalism in the United States and IrelandEpilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a ""Greater Ireland"" spanning the Atlantic that profoundly impacted both Irish and American society. In A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America, Ely M. Janis closely examines the Irish National Land League, a transatlantic organization with strong support in Ireland and the United States. Founded in Ireland in 1879 against the backdrop of crop failure and agrarian unrest, the Land League pressured the British government to reform the Irish landholding system and allow Irish political self-rule. The League quickly spread to the United States, with hundreds of thousands of Irish Americans participating in branches in their local communities. As this ""Greater Ireland"" flourished, new opportunities arose for women and working-class men to contribute within Irish-American society. Exploring the complex interplay of ethnicity, class, and gender, Janis demonstrates the broad range of ideological, social, and political opinion held by Irish Americans in the 1880s. Participation in the Land League deeply influenced a generation that replaced their old county and class allegiances with a common cause, shaping the future of Irish-American nationalism.
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• Redeeming Ireland-The Historical Problem and a Model for Cultural Analysis Historical Antecedents to the Irish Land War Emergence of the Irish Land Movement, 1879 Movement Expansion, 1880 Consolidation of Irish Nationalist Identity, 1881 Out of the Land War - Irish National Identity.
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Author Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish Land War, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation.
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• List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction-- M.Cragoe& P.Readman The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration, and the Impact of Enclosure, c.1770-1850-- I.Waites 'Witnesses for the Defence': the Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c.1815-1837-- K.Beresford Chartism and the Land: 'the Mighty People's Question'-- M.Chase The 'Manchester School' and the Landlords: the Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain-- A.Howe 'A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish': the Land Question in Victorian Wales-- M.Cragoe Setting the Heather on Fire: the Land Question in Scotland, 1850-1914-- E.Cameron Irish Land and British Politics-- P.Bull Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George-- A.Taylor London and the Land Question c.1880-1914-- R.Quinault The Edwardian Land Question-- P.Readman Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: the Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain-- I.Packer Land Reform and the English land Market, 1880-1925-- J.Beckett & M.Turner Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918-1950s-- C.Griffiths Epilogue: the Strange Death of the English Land Question-- F.M.L.Thompson.
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For nearly two hundred years, the use and ownership of land generated much political controversy in Britain. Liberals, radicals and socialists attacked the evils of 'landlordism', proposing measures ranging from allotment bills to land nationalisation. Conversely, political conservatives mounted various campaigns in defence of the landed aristocracy and landed property in general, resisting the schemes of reformers while likewise sponsoring legislation to further their own cause. The ensuing debate over the 'land question' became a fixture of modern British politics between 1750 and 1950. This volume, featuring a distinguished line-up of expert contributors, offers the first synoptic and pan-British treatment of the land question in this period. Critically engaging with recent research, the essays offer a range of fresh social, cultural, political and economic perspectives on the land question as it played out in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
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The land question loomed large in late Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major part in Conservative, Liberal and Labour policymaking: in the context of concern about the faltering agricultural economy and the effects of large-scale rural-urban migration, land reforms were hotly debated in and out of parliament as never before. This book offers the first full-length study of the relationship between Englishness and the politics of land. It explores the ideas and cultural attitudes that informed political positions on the land question, from paternalist 'pure squire Conservatism' to patriotic radical visions of pre-enclosure England: the author underlines how the land question excited political passion and controversy because it involved contested issues of national identity, national character and race.By examining how land politics functioned as a site for patriotic debate, the book offers fresh insights into the ideological significance of contemporary nationalistic discourse, which in the British context has more usually been associated with war and empire than apparently 'domestic' issues. In doing so, it argues for the importance of rural - but not necessarily reactionary - constructions of Englishness in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England. Dr. Paul Readman is Lecturer in Modern History at King's College London.
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A narrative account of the nineteenth-century assassination of an Anglo-Irish landlord whose demise occurred at the height of the Great Irish Famine evaluates Mahon's possible role in the sufferings of his tenants and draws on the observations of powerful period leaders.

Colonel Edward Saunderson, the original leader of Irish Unionism, and the most prominent defender of Irish landlords in the late nineteenth century, has suffered undue neglect. This book, the first detailed account of his life to appear since the Edwardian era, explores the political traditions of the Saunderson family as well as the development and repercussions of the Colonel's career. The twin poles of Saunderson's life, landownership and the Union, represent the central themes of this study. Saunderson's Unionism was intimately bound with this status as a landed proprietor, and the party institutions and strategies which he helped to create owed much to the strengths and preoccupations of his caste. Equally, the retreat of the gentry within Irish society affected the structure and direction of the whole unionist movement. Jackson offers a wide-ranging account of an Irish landed family concentrating on its most notable member, and on the last decades of its influence. This book is both an important political biography and a valuable case-study of the gentry's economic decline and political reorientation. Edward Saunderson's career, significant within its own terms, serves to illustrate the death throes of the class to which he belonged.
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• 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.
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Landed and urban property exercised a powerful influence on social policy, urban development and national party politics in Victorian and Edwardian England. This book presents an innovative study of the economic, legal and social foundations of the British State. It contains a history of the law of land transfer, estimates of landed property and landed debt, and descriptions of the urban property market and of the impact of taxation upon urban development. Agrarian and urban property owners embraced conflicting doctrines of taxation. These doctrines, held rigidly for many decades, helped to form the identies of the Conservative and Liberal parties, and determine their policies in office. This book also analyses the stormy period from 1909 to 1914 where the urban crisis was compounded of collapsing property values, rising taxes and unsatisfied social demands as well as Lloyd George's provocative budgets and his ambitious and abortive land schemes.
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• 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.
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Landed and urban property exercised a powerful influence on social policy, urban development and national party politics in Victorian and Edwardian England. This book presents an innovative study of the economic, legal and social foundations of the British State. It contains a history of the law of land transfer, estimates of landed property and landed debt, and descriptions of the urban property market and of the impact of taxation upon urban development. Agrarian and urban property owners embraced conflicting doctrines of taxation. These doctrines, held rigidly for many decades, helped to form the identies of the Conservative and Liberal parties, and determine their policies in office. This book also analyses the stormy period from 1909 to 1914 where the urban crisis was compounded of collapsing property values, rising taxes and unsatisfied social demands as well as Lloyd George's provocative budgets and his ambitious and abortive land schemes.
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