The Cambridge urban history of Britain. Volume 2, 1540-1840 [electronic resource] / edited by Peter Clark.

Contributor Clark, Peter, 1944- editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Description1 online resource (xxvii, 906 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:Introduction / Peter Clark -- Area surveys 1540-1840 -- Introduction / Peter Clark -- England: East Anglia / Penelope J. Corfield -- England: South-East / C.W. Chalklin -- England: South-West / Jonathan Barry -- England: Midlands / Alan Dyer -- England: North / John K. Walton -- Wales / Philip Jenkins -- Scotland / T.M. Devine -- Urban themes and types 1540-1700 -- Towns in an agrarian economy 1540-1700 / Paul Glennie and Ian Whyte -- Population and disease, estrangement and belonging 1540-1700 / P. Griffiths, J. Landers, M. Pelling and R. Tyson -- Politics and government 1540-1700 / Ian A. Archer -- Reformation and culture 1540-1700 / Vanessa Harding -- The urban landscape 1540-1700 / Michael Reed -- London 1540-1700 / Jeremy Boulton -- Great and good towns 1540-1700 / Paul Slack -- Ports 1540-1700 / David Harris Sacks and Michael Lynch -- Small market towns 1540-1700 / Alan Dyer -- Urban themes and types 1700-1840 -- Urban growth and economic change: from the late seventeenth century to 1841 / John Langton -- Population and society 1700-1840 / Pamela Sharpe -- Politics and government 1700-1840 / Joanna Innes and Nicholas Rogers -- Culture and leisure 1700-1840 / Peter Clark and R.A. Houston -- The transformation of urban space 1700-1840 / Michael Reed -- London 1700-1840 / Leonard Schwarz -- Regional and county centres 1700-1840 / Joyce Ellis -- Ports 1700-1840 / Gordon Jackson -- Small towns 1700-1840 / Peter Clark -- Health and leisure resorts 1700-1840 / Peter Borsay -- Industrialising towns 1700-1840 / Barrie Trinder -- Conclusion / Peter Clark.

Note:The second volume of The Cambridge Urban History examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation - the wonder of the Western world. The contributors offer a detailed analysis of the evolution of national and regional urban networks in England, Scotland and Wales and assess the growth of all the main types of towns - from the rising imperial metropolis of London to the great provincial cities, country and market towns, and the new-style leisure and industrialising towns. They discuss problems of urban mortality and migration, the social organisation of towns, the growth of industry and the service sector, civic governance, and the rise of religious and cultural pluralism. This is the first ever comprehensive study of British towns and cities in the early modern period, the culmination of a generation of research on perhaps the most important social and geographical change in British history.

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