Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 500 g
Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks
England in 1850-1914
Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 500 g
Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-19-289163-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
By the outbreak of the First World War England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 per cent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in English urban society had taken place.
This book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of those developments - conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities, and seaside resorts. The author assesses the importance of London, the provincial cities, and manufacturing centres; he also examines the continuing influence of the small country town and `rural' England on political, economic, and cultural growth. In many respects, P. J. Waller's book is a general social history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century
England, seen from an urban perspective. It is both scholarly and immensely readable.
