The Victorian city : a reader in British urban history, 1820-1914 / edited by R.J. Morris and Richard Rodger.

Title & Author:

The Victorian city : a reader in British urban history, 1820-1914 / edited by R.J. Morris and Richard Rodger.

Publication:

London ; New York : Longman, 1993.

Description:

viii, 382 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Series:

Readers in urban history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An introduction to British urban history, 1820-1914 / R.J. Morris and Richard Rodger -- Urbanization / R.J. Morris -- Employment, wages and poverty in the Scottish cities 1840-1914 / Richard Rodger -- Victorian cities : how different? / David Cannadine -- The rise of suburbia / F.M.L. Thompson -- The railway as an agent of internal change in Victorian cities / J.R. Kellett -- Urban famine or urban crisis? Typhus in the Victorian city / Anne Hardy -- Class consciousness in Oldham and other north-west industrial towns, 1830-50 / D.S. Gadian -- Municipal socialism and social policy / Hamish Fraser.
The policeman as domestic missionary : urban discipline and popular culture in northern England, 1850-80 / Robert D. Storch -- The butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker : the shop and family in the Industrial Revolution / Catherine Hall -- The role of religion in the cultural structure of the later Victorian city / J.H.S. Kent -- St Gile's Fair, 1830-1914 / Sally Alexander.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0582051339 (csd)
9780582051331 (csd)
0582051320 (ppr)
9780582051324 (ppr)

Subject:

Cities and towns Great Britain History 19th century.
Urbanization Great Britain History 19th century.
Social classes Great Britain History 19th century.
Villes Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Classes sociales Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Cities and towns.
Social classes.
Urbanization.
Stadt
Aufsatzsammlung
Steden.
Urbanisation Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 19e siècle.
Cities Social conditions History

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Morris, R. J. (Robert John)
Rodger, Richard.
Readers in urban history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293284
Call No.: BIB 238083
Status: Available

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