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Town, City, and Nation: England in 1850-1914: England, 1850-1914 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Robert James Waller; P. J. Waller (Author)
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Town, City, and Nation: England in 1850-1914: England, 1850-1914 (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Robert James Waller; P. J. Waller
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Synopsis "Town, City, and Nation: England in 1850-1914: England, 1850-1914 (Clarendon Paperbacks)"
By the outbreak of the First World War England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 per cent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in English urban society had taken place. This book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of those developments - conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities, and seaside resorts. The author assesses the importance of London, the provincial cities, and manufacturing centres; he also examines the continuing influence of the small country town and `rural' England on political, economic, and cultural growth. In many respects, P. J. Waller's book is a general social history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England, seen from an urban perspective. It is both scholarly and immensely readable.
