The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 - Couverture rigide

Borsay, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198200021 ISBN 13 : 9780198200024

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1989

Synopsis

In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to some of the most striking features of that revival, including the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical architecture, the emergent forces of planning and expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure, embracing the performing and intellectual arts, arenas of display and sport. The author also penetrates behind the new culture's elegant facade to explore its economic origins and the contrasting forces which stimulated it: wealth, self-interest, idealism and snobbery. Drawing on the disciplines of architecture, music, historical geography, English literature and urban studies as well as history, this book concentrates on the interaction between urban culture and society as a whole. It not only examines the development of the early modern town, with detailed discussion in the text and reference material in a town-by-town appendix, but also the relatively neglected history of England between the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This penetrating study examines the economic and social origins which stimulated the most striking features of that revival: the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical architecture and the emergent forces of planning; and the remarkable expansion in the provision of public leisure. Concentrating on the interaction between urban culture and society as a whole, Peter Borsay draws on a wide range of disciplines, shedding new light not only on the development of the early modern town, but also on the relatively neglected period of English history between the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. Reference material is included, in a detailed town-by-town appendix.

Revue de presse

excellent ... an exciting and imaginative book, which does a marvellous job of welding social and architectural history. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

a book which is both an education and a delight ... This is a deeply learned, splendidly argued, beautifully written and wonderfully stimulating volume. It is unquestionably one of the best urban studies we have had for many a long day. (Angus McInnes, University of Keele, History, No.245, Oct 1990)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198200021
• ISBN 13: 9780198200024
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 438
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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