Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914

New examination of how land politics were closely entwined with the idea of Englishness.

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 oflarge-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 betw...