National Evils and Practical Remedies: With a Plan for a Model TownJames Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a Cornish-born traveller and writer. As a member of Parliament in the 1830s he campaigned for reforms in the army and navy as well as for the temperance movement. He travelled widely to the Middle East, Israel and America, wrote travel books and also founded a number of journals. One of these was The Athenaeum, a weekly London periodical covering a wide range of topics from literature to popular science. In this work, published in 1849, Buckingham names seven evils threatening contemporary society (ranging from ignorance from intemperance to war and competition), proposes a number of economic reforms that primarily target the existing taxation system, and pleads for a new Reform Bill. Buckingham develops in great detail his vision of a model town and the community inhabiting it, and offers his thoughts on how a such city should be planned. |
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Inhalt
PREFACE | xv |
TRUE PRINCIPLES OF TAXATIONFINANCIAL | xxi |
Remarkable Examples of Projects and Opinions received with incredulity | xxx |
CHAPTER I | 33 |
Existing Evils oi SocietyCauses to which they may be tracedand Reme | 39 |
CHAPTER I | 40 |
CHAPTER III | 57 |
CHAPTER VI | 70 |
Estimated Cost of such a Model Town and its Corresponding Estate for | 182 |
Plan of the Model Town as represented in the accompanying Engraving | 183 |
CHAPTER VII | 197 |
Estimate of the population numbers and occupations of each class | 209 |
CHAPTER IX | 223 |
CHAPTER X | 234 |
Authorities ancient and modern in favour of the principle of Associated | 257 |
Additional considerations and suggestions in illustration of the subjects dis | 307 |
The Sixth great Evil which impedes the progress of happiness in | 76 |
Page 27 line 18 for those read the | 84 |
CHAPTER VIII | 85 |
CHAPTER I | 107 |
Would it be possible to remodel Society by Systematic Association on | 120 |
What other Organization of Society will avoid these Evils Symptoms | 140 |
CHAPTER V | 154 |
What remains to be done to obtain the means of trying the F xperiment | 318 |
Remedy for this state of things to be found only in an entire Revision of | 335 |
On the most Practicable Mode of making an Equitable Liquidation of | 382 |
Emigration and Colonizati0nNecessity and Advantage of bothElements | 404 |
Objections to the too rapid filling up of our Colonies and accelerating their | 422 |
Convulsed State of the Continent of EuropeMore moderate agitations | 432 |
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| Titel | National Evils and Practical Remedies: With a Plan for a Model Town Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century Cambridge Library Collection - History |
| Autor/in | James Silk Buckingham |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Cambridge University Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1108036864, 9781108036863 |
| Länge | 554 Seiten |
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