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Spaces of modernity : London's geographies, 1680-1780 / Miles Ogborn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogborn, Miles.
- Series:
- Mappings: society/theory/space a Guilford Series.
- Mappings: society/theory/space a Guilford Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public spaces.
- History.
- London (England)--History--18th century.
- London (England).
- Architecture, Modern--17th century--England--London.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture, Modern--18th century--England--London.
- England--London.
- London (England)--History--17th century.
- London (England)--Historical geography.
- Public spaces--England--London--History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the geographies of eighteenth-century London. Ogborn draws upon a wide variety of textual and visual sources to illuminate processes of commodification, individualization, state formation, and the transformation of the public sphere within the new spaces of the metropolis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1572303433
- 1572303654
- OCLC:
- 38535945
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