Two capitals : London and Dublin, 1500-1840 / edited by Peter Clark & Raymond Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Peter, 1944-

Gillespie, Raymond.

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 107.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--History--Congresses.

London (England).

Dublin (Ireland)--History--Congresses.

Dublin (Ireland).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (Storage copy 2)

Physical Description:

vi, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, [2001]

Summary:

This is a comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the 16th and early 19th centuries.

Contents:

Introduction / Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie

Growth, modernisation and control: the transformation of London's landscape, c. 1500-c.1760 / Derek Keene

The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750 / Colm Lennon

Managing the metropolis: London's social problems and their control, c. 1660-1830 / Joanna Innes

Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin / Neal Garnham

Hanoverian London: the making of a service town / Leonard Schwarz

Death of a capital? Dublin and the consequences of Union / David Dickson

Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs / Ian W. Archer

The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century / J.R. Hill

London, 1660-1800: a distinctive culture? / Peter Borsay

'Grand metropolis' or 'The anus of the world'? The cultural life of eighteenth-century Dublin / T.C. Barnard

The Church of England in London in the eighteenth century / Viviane Barrie

Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin / Raymond Gillespie

The multi-centred metropolis: the social and cultural landscapes of London, 1600-1840 / Peter Clark

The multi-centred metropolis: the social topography of eighteenth-century Dublin / Edel Sheridan-Quantz.

Notes:

Substantially rev. papers from a conference held in Dublin in April 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0197262473

9780197262474

OCLC:

47824877

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