This book is concerned with one kind of property - privately rented housing, in one city - Edinburgh, and with those who, over the past century or so, have been able to accumulate, control and dispose of it. The book reveals the substantial and multi-faceted power of landlords over the last 100 years, and of the class of small-scale capitalists who dominated this type of investment as well as the city's politics over the period. Despite their contribution to the political success of Mrs Thatcher's "new" brand of conservatism, the material prospects of these small rentiers seem to be in terminal decline.
- ISBN10 0333226011
- ISBN13 9780333226018
- Publish Date 11 November 1982
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English