Victorian Cities / Edition 1

by Asa Briggs, Andrew Lees, Lynn Hollen Lees

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520079229
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/24/1993
Series:	Classics in Urban History , #2
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	411
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Asa Briggs, former provost of Worcester College, Oxford, is the author of many works on 19th-century British history.

Table of Contents

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