The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban History 1688-1820

by Borsay; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780582051348
• ISBN10: 0582051347
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1990-11-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Urban growth and agricultural change: England and the Continent in the early modern period

Country, county and town; patterns of regional evolution in England

Urban improvement and the English economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The English urban renaissance: the development of provinical urban culture c.1680 - c.1760

The London 'mob' in the early eighteenth-century

Bath: ideology and utopia 1700 - 1760

Science, provincial culture and public opinion in Enlightenment England

Money, Land and lineage: the big bourgeoise of Hanoverian London

Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760 - 1793: politics and regional identity in the English provinces in the later eighteenth century

Social class and social geography: the middle classes in London at the end of the eighteenth century

Voluntary societies and British urban elites 1780 - 18

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