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Author | : David Edward Owen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674358850 |
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Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
Author | : Gloria Christine Clifton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1158 |
Release | : 1986 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gloria C. Clifton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9781474284950 |
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"This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author | : Gloria Clifton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474241220 |
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This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674538399 |
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An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Author | : Sally Mitchell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1014 |
Release | : 2012-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136716173 |
Download Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.
Author | : P. Andersson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137320907 |
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Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is scrutinised to explore this public interaction in the capital.
Author | : Lisa Keller |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231146722 |
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Author | : Gloria Clifton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474241212 |
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This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.
Author | : Matthew Newsom Kerr |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319657682 |
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This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention—isolation. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways. Isolation on a mass scale transformed the meaning of urban epidemics and introduced contentious new relationships between health, citizenship, and the spaces of modern governance. Rich in archival sources and images, this engaging book offers innovative analysis at the intersection of preventive medicine and Victorian-era liberalism.