Rent collection courtyard

The conclusion draws on the book’s key themes to revisit models of the policy process in early modern Europe, particularly that of rent-seeking as understood by public choice econo...

By early 1856, the Mollies’ target, James Gallagher, held land accounting for over 41 per cent of the acreage in Beagh and 31 per cent of its rental; seven tenancies accounted for ...

This collection presents folklore recorded by the Finnish folklorist Aukusti Robert Niemi in 1911 in Dzūkija, in the parishes of Valkininkai, Perloja, Merkinė, Nedzingė, and Marcin...

Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress a...

This chapter discusses the rent strikes staged by Illinois Negroes with the help of Unemployed Councils in the early years of the Great Depression to resist evictions from the Chic...

Pennell’s chapter engages with the idea that objects acquire individual and social meaning partly because of the emotions that subjects attach to them, in the context of the often ...