Peter Borsay

The Eighteenth-Century Town

A Reader in English Urban History 1688-1820

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781138837430
• ISBN-10: 1138837431
• Artikelnr.: 41246074

Autorenporträt

Peter Borsay

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction Peter Borsay. 2. Urban growth
and agricultural change: England and the Continent in the early modern
period E Anthony Wrigley. 3. Country, county and town; patterns of regional
evolution in England Alan Everitt. 4. Urban improvement and the English
economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries E L Jones and M E
Falkus. 5. The English urban renaissance: the development of provinical
urban culture c.1680 - c.1760 Peter Borsay. 6. The London 'mob' in the
early eighteenth-century Robert B Shoemaker. 7. Bath: ideology and utopia
1700 - 1760 R S Neale. 8. Science, provincial culture and public opinion in
Enlightenment England R Porter. 9. Money, Land and lineage: the big
bourgeoise of Hanoverian London Nicholas Rogers. 10. Birmingham and the
West Midlands 1760 - 1793: politics and regional identity in the English
provinces in the later eighteenth century J Money. 11. Social class and
social geography: the middle classes in London at the end of the eighteenth
century L D Schwarz. 12. Voluntary societies and British urban élites 1780
- 18.