The Annotated Works of Henry George

Our Land and Land Policy and Other Works, Volume 1

Edited by Francis K. Peddle and William S. Peirce - Contributions by Fred Foldvary; Jerome F. Heavey and Brian J. Hodgkinson

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 and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of the works of Henry George assembles all his major works for the first time with new introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material, and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for scholars and reformers.

Volume 1 of The Annotated Works of Henry George includes an introduction to the six-volume series that focuses on the social context for George’s political economy, as well as the public and private struggles that George faced. Tension between the dream of economic justice and different techniques to realize it proved a continuing challenge for the Georgist movement after its heady early years.

Volume 1 presents three major works by George and new essays to provide context. George wrote Our Land and Land Policy (1871) while still a journalist in California. Fred Foldvary shows that George, even as a neophyte economist, wrote with uncanny insight and analytical skill. In The Irish Land Question (1881), George dove into the maelstrom of Irish land policy. Jerome Heavey provides the essential clarification of the history and politics of Irish land law and explains why George’s remedy was not adopted. Property in Land (1885) incorporates the debate between George and the eighth Duke of Argyll. Brian Hodgkinson provides the historical and philosophical setting for this exchange between the Scottish aristocratic landowner and the American “Prophet of San Francisco.”

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 348 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-61147-701-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

978-1-61147-702-3 • eBook • December 2015 • $122.50 • (£95.00)

Series: The Annotated Works of Henry George

Subjects: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations, Business & Economics / Labor, Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy

The Annotated Works of Henry George

Our Land and Land Policy and Other Works, Volume 1

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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 and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John Dewey, Sun Yat-Sen, Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein. This six-volume edition of the works of Henry George assembles all his major works for the first time with new introductions, critical annotations, extensive bibliographical material, and comprehensive indexing to provide a wealth of resources for scholars and reformers.

Volume 1 of The Annotated Works of Henry George includes an introduction to the six-volume series that focuses on the social context for George’s political economy, as well as the public and private struggles that George faced. Tension between the dream of economic justice and different techniques to realize it proved a continuing challenge for the Georgist movement after its heady early years.

Volume 1 presents three major works by George and new essays to provide context. George wrote Our Land and Land Policy (1871) while still a journalist in California. Fred Foldvary shows that George, even as a neophyte economist, wrote with uncanny insight and analytical skill. In The Irish Land Question (1881), George dove into the maelstrom of Irish land policy. Jerome Heavey provides the essential clarification of the history and politics of Irish land law and explains why George’s remedy was not adopted. Property in Land (1885) incorporates the debate between George and the eighth Duke of Argyll. Brian Hodgkinson provides the historical and philosophical setting for this exchange between the Scottish aristocratic landowner and the American “Prophet of San Francisco.”

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 348 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-61147-701-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

978-1-61147-702-3 • eBook • December 2015 • $122.50 • (£95.00)

Series: The Annotated Works of Henry George

Subjects: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations, Business & Economics / Labor, Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy

Author

Francis K. Peddle is professor of philosophy, Dominican University College, Ottawa.

William S. Peirce is professor emeritus of economics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

Table of Contents

Preface: Critical Edition of the Collected Works of Henry George by Francis K. Peddle
Introduction: The Complete Works of Henry George by Kenneth C. Wenzer
Chapter 1: The Twilight Years by Kenneth C. Wenzer
Chapter 2: A Commentary on Our Land and Land Policy: Yesterday and Today by Fred E. Foldvary
Chapter 3: Our Land and Land Policy, Nation and Sate by Henry George, Annotated by Kenneth C. Wenzer
Chapter 4: Henry George and the Irish Land War by Jerry Heavey
Chapter 5: The Irish Land Question by Henry George, Annotated by Jerry Heavy
Chapter 6: Property in Land by Brian Hodgkinson
Chapter 7: The Prophet of San Francisco by Henry George, Annotated by Brian Hodgkinson
Chapter 8: The ‘Reduction to Iniquity’ by Henry George
About the Contributors