Urbanising Britain: Essays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century: 17

Urbanising BritainEssays on Class and Community in the Nineteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Gerry Kearns, Charles W. J. Withers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521364997, 978-0521364997\nSynopsis\nUrbanising Britain brings together the work of some leading British historical geographers of the younger generation to consider nineteenth-century urbanization as a process, emphasizing the dimensions of class and community. The essays in this collection reflect the use of social science concepts within the field of historical geography, and are organized to follow urbanization from its origins in migration, to its consequences in urban culture and public health. The contributions combine conceptual sophistication with original empirical research to present a series of important and innovative statements about the changing nature of the Victorian city, and reflect the value of a critical theoretical persp.