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  title info:
    title: Marketable values
    sub title: inventing the property market in modern Britain
  name:
    name part: Fitz-Gibbon, Desmond
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The idea that land should be, or even could be, treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and political power, and that resisted comparisons with more easily transacted and abstract markets. Fast-forward to today, when house-flipping is ubiquitous and references to the fluctuating property market fill the news. How did we get here? Desmond Fitz-Gibbon seeks to answer that question. He tells the story of how Britons imagined, organized and debated the buying and selling of land from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In a society organized around the prestige of property, the desire to commodify land required making it newly visible through such spectacles as public auctions, novel professions like auctioneering and real estate journalism. As Fitz-Gibbon shows, these innovations sparked impassioned debates on where, when, and how to demarcate the limits of a market society. As a result of these collective efforts, the real estate business became legible to an increasingly attentive public and a lynchpin of modern economic life. Drawing on an eclectic range of sources, from personal archives and estate correspondence to building designs, auction handbills and newspapers, Marketable Values explores the development of the British property market and the seminal role it played in shaping the relationship we have to property around the world today.
  table of contents: Introduction: locating the property market -- The marketplace -- Market people -- Calculating the market -- States of marketability -- The limits of marketability -- Conclusion: "property for the million."
  note: Desmond Fitz-Gibbon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Real property
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Real property
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Marketing
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Real property auctions
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
  classification: HD593 .F58 2018
  classification: 333.30941
  identifier: 9780226584164
  identifier: 022658416X
  identifier: 9780226584331
  identifier: 022658433X
  identifier: 9780226584478 (e-book)
  identifier: 2018020206
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180508
    record change date: 20190422103822.0
    record identifier: in00003996365