Two Capitals London and Dublin 1500-1840

by Clark, Peter; Gillespie, Raymond

• ISBN13: 9780197262474
• ISBN10: 0197262473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

These essays offer the first comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contributors, all leading urban historians, examine the physical growth of the cities, economic and social trends, governance, and cultural significance. This volume is a major contribution not only to urban studies but also to British and Irish history in general.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	viii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Peter Clark
Raymond Gillespie
Growth, modernisation and control: the transformation of London's landscape, c.1500--c.1760	7	(32)
Derek Keene
The changing face of Dublin, 1550--1750	39	(14)
Colm Lennon
Managing the metropolis: London's social problems and their control, c.1660--1830	53	(28)
Joanna Innes
Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin	81	(12)
Neal Garnham
Hanoverian London: the making of a service town	93	(18)
Leonard Schwarz
Death of a capital? Dublin and the consequences of Union	111	(22)
David Dickson
Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs	133	(16)
Ian W. Archer
The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century	149	(18)
J.R. Hill
London, 1660--1800: a distinctive culture?	167	(18)
Peter Borsay
`Grand metropolis' or `The anus of the world'? The cultural life of eighteenth-century Dublin	185	(26)
T.C. Barnard
The Church of England in London in the eighteenth century	211	(12)
Viviane Barrie
Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin	223	(16)
Raymond Gillespie
The multi-centred metropolis: the social and cultural landscapes of London, 1600--1840	239	(26)
Peter Clark
The multi-centred metropolis: the social topography of eighteenth-century Dublin	265	(32)
Edel Sheridan-Quantz
Index	297