The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-century Britain
Author | : B. I. Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415413183 |
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Author | : B. I. Coleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415413183 |
Author | : Richard Dennis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1986-07-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521338394 |
In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the industrial towns and cities of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and South Wales, that epitomised the spirit of the new age.
Author | : B.I. Coleman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135677166 |
In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before. This volume focuses on the intellectual and controversial response of the period's leading men and women to the key issues of urbanization and its surrounding social problems. The extracts selected date from 1785 to 1909, and are drawn from the writings, reports and speeches of admirers of city life and its most passionate critics, optimists and alarmists, advocates of back-to-the-land panaceas, and reformers who aspired to control and reform cities. Contemporaries quoted include Dickens, Cobbett, Carlyle, Disraeli, Engels, Mrs Gaskell, Ruskin, Joseph Chamberlain, William Morris, Charles Booth, H.G. Wells and Seebohm Rowntree. In a valuable introduction the editor indicates the main preoccupations of the debate abotu the city, proposes a periodization for it, adn shows its connections with other controversies and issues, as Victorian Britain found itself entering an 'age of great cities'. This book was first published in 1973.
Author | : James H Johnson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000383504 |
When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19th Century towns in Britain and America, there had been little attempt to search for links between these empirical studies and to relate them more to more general theories of 19th Century urban development. The book provides an integrated series of chapters which discuss trends and research problems in the study of 19th Century cities. It will be of value to researchers in urban geography, social history and historical geography.
Author | : Judith Flanders |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466835451 |
From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
Author | : Dennis R. Mills |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317221974 |
First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so, it explores the ways in which the estate system influenced urban development and how the peasant system facilitated the industrialisation of many villages. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian and social history, industrialisation and urbanisation.
Author | : David Cannadine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2018-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525557903 |
A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account . . .[Cannadine] tells his own story persuasively and exceedingly well.” —The Wall Street Journal To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science, and work--all while a growing religious skepticism rendered the intellectual landscape increasingly unrecognizable. It was an exhilarating time, and as a result, most of the countries in the world that experienced these changes were racked by political and social unrest. Britain, however, maintained a stable polity at home, and as a result it quickly found itself in a position of global leadership. In this major new work, leading historian David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of nineteenth-century Britain. Britain was a country that saw itself at the summit of the world and, by some measures, this was indeed true. It had become the largest empire in history: its political stability positioned it as the leader of the new global economy and allowed it to construct the largest navy ever built. And yet it was also a society permeated with doubt, fear, and introspection. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in fact obsessed with its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century is a comprehensive and extraordinarily stimulating history--its author catches the relish, humor and staginess of the age, but also the dilemmas faced by Britain's citizens, ones we remain familiar with today.
Author | : D.A. Reeder |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018-01-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351238353 |
First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change
Author | : Tom Hulme |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0861933494 |
A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century
Author | : Debra N. Mancoff |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815319498 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.