Richard H Trainor

Black Country Elites

The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area 1830-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban elites deployed to cope with urban growth, social unrest, and relative economic decline. Concentrating on a particularly grimy district of the industrial Midlands, the book demonstrates the surprisingly great resources, coherence, sophistication, and impact of the area's mainly middle-class leaders, who were well linked to regional and national power centres. Richard H. Trainor's extensively researched and richly documented analysis suggests the need to re-examine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by land, the professions, and finance. Instead he indicates the complex give-and-take between the metropolis and its notables, on the one hand, and the industrial provinces and their leaders, on the other. The book is both a substantial addition to regional studies of Victorian Britain, and an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century elites and of the urban middle class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780198203551
• ISBN-10: 0198203551
• Artikelnr.: 21073473