The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England

ISBN-13: 9780198206699 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 368 str.

Rosemary Sweet

Opis

This book uses the genre of urban histories to examine aspects of culture, society, and politics in eighteenth-century towns in England. Sweet looks particularly at questions of civic pride and the creation of urban identity. Urban history and antiquarian scholarship were popular pursuits among polite society, and their study offers an unique insight into the cultural history of the period.

Recenzje

by analysing the addresses of subscribers to urban histories, Sweet is able to quantify the surprisingly various degrees of local interest in local publications. Historians of provincial printing and publication will find this book exceptionally valuable ... Sweet's book is admirably respectful of its subject-matter, and presents a cogent argument for why the provinces, and their historians, should be proud of themselves.