| Victorian Cities: Volume 2 Contributor(s): Briggs, Asa (Author), Lees, Andrew (Foreword by), Lees, Lynn Hollen (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0520079221 ISBN-13: 9780520079229 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $33.61 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: The cities of this book are the cities of the railway and tramway age, of the age of steam and of gas, of a society sometimes restless, sometimes complacent, moving, often fumbling and faltering, towards greater democracy. The building of the cities was a characteristic Victorian Achievement, impressive in scale but limited in vision, creating new opportunities but also providing massive new problems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 92030443 |
| Series: Classics in Urban History |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.02" W x 8.97" (1.34 lbs) 411 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |