| The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Borsay, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198202555 ISBN-13: 9780198202554 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $76.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1991 Annotation: In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the transformation of the urban landscape and the remarkable expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure. Peter Borsay penetrates behind the new culture's elegant facade to explore its economic origins and the mixture of social forces which stimulated it: wealth, self-interest, idealism, and snobbery. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Historical Geography |
| Dewey: 942.07 |
| Series: Oxford Studies in Social History |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5.39" W x 8.51" (1.33 lbs) 438 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the most striking features of that revival: the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical architecture and the emergent forces of planning, and a remarkable expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including architecture, music, historical geography, English literature, urban studies and history, the book concentrates on the interaction between urban culture and society as a whole. It sheds new light not only on the development of the early modern town, but also on the relatively neglected history of England between the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. |
