Urbanising Britain
Essays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century
Part of Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
- Editors:
- Gerry Kearns, University of Liverpool
- Charles W. J. Withers, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
- Date Published: December 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521046091
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Urbanising Britain brings together the work of some leading British historical geographers of the younger generation to consider nineteenth-century urbanization as a process, emphasizing the dimensions of class and community. The essays in this collection reflect the use of social science concepts within the field of historical geography, and are organized to follow urbanization from its origins in migration, to its consequences in urban culture and public health. The contributions combine conceptual sophistication with original empirical research to present a series of important and innovative statements about the changing nature of the Victorian city, and reflect the value of a critical theoretical perspective, hitherto absent from much work in this area.
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- Date Published: December 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521046091
- length: 188 pages
- dimensions: 225 x 150 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.288kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 5 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Notes on contributors
Introduction: class, community and the processes of urbanisation Gerry Kearns and Charles W. J. Withers
1. Biology, class and the urban penalty Gerry Kearns
2. Public space and local communities: the example of Birmingham, 1840–1880 Bill Bramwell
3. Class, culture and migrant identity: Gaelic Highlanders in urban Scotland Charles W. J. Withers
4. The country and the city: sexuality and social class in Victorian Scotland J. A. D. Blaikie
5. Mobility, the artisan community and popular politics in early nineteenth-century England Humphrey Southall
Notes
Consolidated bibliography
Index.
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