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Book Synopsis The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England by : Rosemary Sweet
Download or read book The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an analysis of 18th-century urban culture and local historical scholarship. The author shows how a sense of the past was crucial not only in instilling civic pride and shaping a sense of community, but also in informing contests for power and influence in the local community.
Book Synopsis The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England by : Rosemary Helen Sweet
Download or read book The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-century England written by Rosemary Helen Sweet and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eighteenth-Century Town by : Peter Borsay
Download or read book The Eighteenth-Century Town written by Peter Borsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England by : Rosemary Sweet
Download or read book Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context. Much of what research there is has explored the experience of laboring or impoverished women, or women of the social elite; by contrast, the essays in this collection take up the study of the participation of middling women in urban life. This volume brings into sharper focus the relationship between changes consequent upon urban development and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in the 18th century. The contributors address such themes as the extent to which to what extent urban change accelerated a redefinition of gender relations; the connections between urban growth, changing definitions of citizenship, and the emergence of the male gendered political subject; the role of women in a literate, consumer and industrializing society; the place of women's networks in the economic, political and social life of the town and the distinctive role played by women in areas such as philanthropy and business; and how the development of urban society in turn inflected contemporary conceputalizations of gender.
Download or read book Antiquaries written by Rosemary Sweet and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.
Book Synopsis Structures and Transformations in Modern British History by : David Feldman
Download or read book Structures and Transformations in Modern British History written by David Feldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Urban History of Britain by : Peter Clark
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
Book Synopsis The Long Eighteenth Century by : Frank O'Gorman
Download or read book The Long Eighteenth Century written by Frank O'Gorman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades. The book considers the development of the internal structure of Britain and explores the growing sense of British nationhood. It looks at the role of religion in matters of state and society, in addition to society's own move towards a class-based system. Commercial and imperial expansion, Britain's role in Europe and the early stages of liberalism are also examined. This new edition is fully updated to include: - Revised and thorough treatments of the themes of gender and religion and of the 1832 Reform Act - New sections on 'Commerce and Empire' and 'Britain and Europe' - Several new maps and charts - A revised introduction and a more extensive conclusion - Updated note sections and bibliographies The Long Eighteenth Century is the essential text for any student seeking to understand the nuances of this absorbing period of British history.
Book Synopsis Parliaments, nations and identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850 by : Julian Hoppit
Download or read book Parliaments, nations and identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660–1850 written by Julian Hoppit and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abolition of the Scottish and Irish Parliaments in 1707 and 1800 created a United Kingdom centred upon the Westminster legislature. This text discusses what this meant for the four nations involved, and how conceptions of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities were affected.
Book Synopsis Writing local history by : John Beckett
Download or read book Writing local history written by John Beckett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of 'professional' history in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. Concentrating on the past sixty years, it looks at the opening of archive offices, the invigorating influence of family history, the impact of adult education and other forms of lifelong learning. The author considers the debates generated by academics, including the divergence of views over local and regional issues, and the importance of standards set by the Victoria County History (VCH). Also discussed is the fragmentation of the subject. The antiquarian tradition included various subject areas that are now separate disciplines, among them industrial archaeology, name studies, family, landscape and urban history. This is an authoritative account of how local history has come to be one of the most popular and productive intellectual pastimes in our modern society. Written by a practitioner who has spent more than twenty years teaching local history to undergraduates and M.A. students, as well as lecturing to local history societies, John Beckett is currently Director of the VCH. A remarkable book that will be of great interest to students and scholars of local history as well as amateur and professional genealogists.
Book Synopsis New Directions in Urban History by : Peter Borsay, Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann, Gunther Hirschfelder
Download or read book New Directions in Urban History written by Peter Borsay, Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann, Gunther Hirschfelder and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces, through a series of freshly researched studies, new perspectives on the history of European urban culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The approach is an international one, with essays on Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy, and the authors drawn not only from Europe, but also the USA and Japan. The essays examine a range of specialist aspects of culture, such as gardening, spa towns, painting, and music. At the same time the contributors also explore jointly several broader interconnected themes - health, nature, the arts and cultural institutions, leisure, and tourism - of central importance to the cultural identity and development of the modern European town.
Book Synopsis The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America by : Jennifer Van Horn
Download or read book The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America written by Jennifer Van Horn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
Book Synopsis Culture in Eighteenth-Century England by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book Culture in Eighteenth-Century England written by Jeremy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also shows the different currents at work, belying any simple picture of England and the English as confident and self-assured."--BOOK JACKET.
Author :Borthwick Institute of Historical Research Publisher :Borthwick Publications ISBN 13 :9781904497059 Total Pages :108 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (97 download)
Book Synopsis Eighteenth-century York by : Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
Download or read book Eighteenth-century York written by Borthwick Institute of Historical Research and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Creative Urban Milieus by : Martina Hessler
Download or read book Creative Urban Milieus written by Martina Hessler and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Creative Urban Milieus' is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical relationship between culture and the economy in such cities as Berlin, New York, Helsinki, London, Venice, and many others.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe by : Peter H. Wilson
Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Peter H. Wilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe. Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe Focuses on Europe while placing it within its international context Considers not just major western European states, but also the often neglected countries of eastern and northern Europe
Book Synopsis Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700–1870 by : David Eastwood
Download or read book Government and Community in the English Provinces, 1700–1870 written by David Eastwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997-06-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold and original study, David Eastwood offers a reinterpretation of politics and public life in provincial England. He explores the ways in which power was exercised, and reconstructs the social and cultural foundations of political authority in provincial England. Professor Eastwood demonstrates the crucial role played by local elites in policy-making, and shows how English public institutions and political culture can only be understood in terms of the long-run development of the English state.
