Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- List of Appendices -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Illustrations -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Role of the Land Tax in Historical Analysis -- PART TWO: INTERPRETING THE STRUCTURE OF THE LAND TAX DUPLICATES -- 2 Minor Problems -- 3 Major Problems -- 4 Roman Catholic Double Assessment -- 5 Converting Tax Values to Acres -- PART THREE: THE VALUATIONAL BASIS OF THE LAND TAX WITHIN TOWNSHIPS -- 6 The Mechanisms and Terminology of Rating -- 7 The Incidence and Level of Revaluation -- 8 The Impact of Redemption -- 9 The Equitability of Assessments within Townships -- 10 The Explanation of Inequalities -- PART FOUR: THE REGIONAL AND NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND TAX BURDEN -- 11 The National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden: The Traditional Evidence -- 12 Valuational Rent and Local Poundage Rates in the North Riding of Yorkshire c. 1830 -- 13 A Method for Estimating Inequalities in the Regional and National Distribution of the Land Tax: Finding a Maximum Valuation Series -- 14 Testing the Maximum Series for Comparability: Spatial Distribution Patterns in the North, East, and West Ridings of Yorkshire -- 15 The National Distribution of the Land Tax Burden: New Estimates for 1815 -- PART FIVE: CONCLUSIONS -- 16 A New Look at the Historiography of Land Tax Studies -- PART SIX: MAPS -- PART SEVEN: APPENDICES -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.