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A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 411
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Classics in Urban History
Publication Date:
24 March 1993
ISBN: 9780520079229
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Asa Briggs, former provost of Worcester College, Oxford, is the author of many works on 19th-century British history.
Foreword by Andrew and Lynn Hollen Lees
Preface
I Introduction
2 City and Society: Victorian Attitudes
3 Manchester, Symbol of a New Age
4 Leeds, a Study in Civic Pride
5 Birmingham: The Making of a Civic Gospel
6 Middlesbrough: The Growth of a New Community
7 Melbourne, a Victorian Community Overseas
8 London, the World City
9 Epilogue: Old Cities and New
Bibliographical Note
Index
Preface
I Introduction
2 City and Society: Victorian Attitudes
3 Manchester, Symbol of a New Age
4 Leeds, a Study in Civic Pride
5 Birmingham: The Making of a Civic Gospel
6 Middlesbrough: The Growth of a New Community
7 Melbourne, a Victorian Community Overseas
8 London, the World City
9 Epilogue: Old Cities and New
Bibliographical Note
Index