The idea of the city in nineteenth-century Britain / edited by B.I. Coleman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coleman, B. I.

Series:

City (Routledge (Firm))

Routledge library editions. The city

History of the city

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Great Britain--History.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before. This volume focuses on the intellectual and controversial response of the period's leading men and women to the key issues of urbanization and its surrounding social problems. The extracts selected date from 1785 to 1909, and are drawn from the writings, reports and speeches of admirers of city life and its most passionate critics, optimists and alarmists, advocates of back-to-the-land panaceas, and reformers who aspired to

Contents:

THE IDEA OF THE CITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN; Copyright; THE IDEA OF THE CITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN; Copyright; General editors' preface; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; The early nineteenth century; The mid-Victorian period; The late-Victorian and Edwardian periods; Politics and government; The poverty question; The religious question; Countryside and city; After the transformation; One To the 1820s: The proliferation of the wens; 1 God made the country, 1785; 2 The strife of singularity, 1805; 3 Sleeping upon gunpowder, 1807

4 The rise and fall of imperial London, 18115 Every parish a little commonwealth, 1820; 6 The principle of locality, 1821; 7 All-devouring wens, 1821-30; 8 The prevailing resort to towns, 1825; Two From the 1820s to 1848: Passion and partisanship; 9 Defective order, 1829; 10 The natural progress of society, 1830-1; 11 Accidental evils and municipal regulation, 1832; 12 Parts of Nature's plan, 1840; 13 The miseries of Earth, 1840-1; 14 Removable circumstances, 1842; 15 Not a fair specimen, 1842; 16 The spirit of the age, 1843; 17 Contravening supply-and-demand, 1843-50

18 A peculiar need of Christianity, 184419 The type of some great idea, 1844; 20 The social war, 1845; 21 Aggregation without association, 1845; 22 Always towards the town, 1846-8; 23 Rabid politics, 1848; Three From 1848 to the 1880s: Acceptance and optimism; 24 The power of ancient architecture, 1849; 25 The poetry of London, 1850; 26 The river of Time, 1852; 27 Without natural police, 1852; 28 Fact and fancy, 1854; 29 Proud of belonging to a town, 1854-5; 30 Energy and public spirit, 1855; 31 Treating the causes, 1857; 32 The Goddess of Getting-on, 1865-9 150

33 The idea of the State, 186934 Appealing to voluntary action, 1871; 35 The dignity of the municipality, 1874-6; 36 Utopia-another word for time, 1876; 37 The backbone of the nation, 1877-81; Four From the 1880s: The doubts return; 38 An exceeding bitter cry, 1883; 39 The largest chapter of human accidents, 1886-8; 40 A city of the damned, 1889; 41 The Clearing of Misery, 1890; 42 The absorbing interest of a battle-field, 1892; 43 The breath of social life, 1894; 44 Marrying town and country, 1898; 45 The new tyranny of cities, 1899; 46 The problem of the coming race, 1901

47 Deflecting the Titan forces, 190148 Great searchings of heart, 1901; 49 Centrifugal possibilities, 1901; 50 The aggregate of vitality and expansion, 1902; 51 The triumph of artificial circumstance, 1903; 52 Evolving Eu-topia, 1905; 53 The tyranny of the present, 1909; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1973 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-67723-9

0-203-71669-8

1-283-88481-X

1-135-67716-6

9780203716694

OCLC:

823389284