1st Edition

A History of Local Government

By K. B. Smellie Copyright 1946
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1946, this book traces the essential changes in structure, areas and in the relations between local and central authorities in England from 1832 to the Education Act of 1944. Modern English local government has developed from the industrial and scientific revolution and the growth of political democracy since 1832 and the present system is the result of an interplay... Read more

1. English Local Government Before 1832 2. The Making of the New Structure, 1832-1888 3. The Development of Central Control, 1832-1888

Biography

K. B. Smellie was Reader in Political Science at the LSE.