Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800�2000: Essays in Honour of David Reeder

ISBN-13: 9780815388067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 349 str.

Robert Colls

Opis

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history.

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; Civil society and British cities, Richard Rodger and Robert Colls; Taxation and representation in the Victorian city, Martin Daunton; The metropolitan and the municipal: the politics of health and environment in London, 1860-1920, Bill Luckin; Resolving the sewage question: Metropolis Sewage & Essex Reclamation Company, 1865-81, P.L. Cottrell; The Sheffield Democrats' critique of criminal justice in the 1850s, Chris A. Williams; A year in the public life of the British bourgeoisie, R.J. Morris; The 'common good' and civic promotion: Edinburgh 1860-1914, Richard Rodger; David Reeder's 'alternative system': the school boards in the 1890s, Brian Simon; Futures from the past: the rise and fall of university liberal adult education, Bill Williamson; Women and citizenship: gender and the built environment in British cities 1870-1939, Hellen Meller; Citizenship, civil society and quality of life: Sutton Model Dwellings Estates 1919-39, Patricia L. Garside; When we lived in communities: working-class culture and its critics, Robert Colls; David Reeder: career and publications; Index.

O autorze

Robert Colls