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Urban politics and space in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : regional perspectives / editor, Barry M. Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Conference on Regional and Local History (2003 : Teesside, England)
- Conference on Regional and Local History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Local government--England--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Local government.
- Local government--England--History--20th century--Congresses.
- City and town life--England--History--19th century--Congresses.
- City and town life.
- City and town life--England--History--20th century--Congresses.
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Congresses.
- England.
- England--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book addresses the increasing regionalisation of urban governance and politics in an era of industrialisation, suburbanisation and welfare extension. It provides an important reassessment of the role, structure and activities of urban elites, highlighting their vitality and their interdependence and demonstrating the increasing regionalisation of municipal politics as towns sought to promote themselves, extend services and even expand physically onto a regional level.
- Contents:
- pt. I. The structures of politics
- pt. II. Politics, institutions and urban management
- pt. III. Governance, discourses and space.
- Notes:
- "This collection of essays draws on work presented to two conferences ... during 2003, the Conference on Regional and Local History (CORAL) meeting at Teesside on Urban Life since th Eighteenth Century: Regional Perspectives and the Urban History Group meeting at Durham, Reassessing Urban Politics"--Pref.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190).
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41479-8
- 9786612414794
- 1-4438-1591-8
- OCLC:
- 827209224
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