Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables ix
4. List of Maps xiii
5. List of Appendices xix
6. Abbreviations xxiv
7. Preface xxv
8. Introduction
9. The Role of the Land Tax in Historical Analysis 3
10. Interpreting the Structure of the Land Tax Duplicates
11. Minor Problems 13
12. Major Problems 30
13. Roman Catholic Double Assessment 52
14. Converting Tax Values to Acres 76
15. The Mechanisms and Terminology of Rating
16. The Mechanisms and Terminology of Rating 107
17. The Incidence and Level of Revaluation 115
18. The Impact of Redemption 123
19. The Equitability of Assessments within Townships 133
20. The Explanation of Inequalities 139
21. The Regional and National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden
22. The National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden: The Traditional Evidence 155
23. Valuational Rent and Local Poundage Rates in the North Riding of Yorkshire c. 1830 160
24. A Met hod for Estimating Inequalities in the Regional and National Distribution of the Land Tax: Finding a Maximum Valuation Series 171
25. Testing the Maximum Series for Comparability: Spatial Distribution Patterns in the North, East, and West Ridings of Yorkshire 201
26. The National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden: New Estimates for 1815 248
27. Conclusions
28. A New Look at the Historiography of Land Tax Studies 265
29. Maps 293
30. Appendices 335
31. Notes 653
32. Bibliography 693
33. Index 705