The English Urban Renaissance
Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770
Series: Oxford Studies in Social History;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 25 April 1991
- ISBN 9780198202554
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages438 pages
- Size 216x139x28 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 halftones, 2 maps, 3 tables 0
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Short description:
In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. In this lively and perceptive history, Peter Borsay examines the most striking features of that revival, both architectural and social, and penetrates the new culture's elegant facade to explore its economic origins and the mixture of social forces that propelled it.
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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.
excellent ... an exciting and imaginative book, which does a marvellous job of welding social and architectural history.
Table of Contents:
List of tables; list of maps; list of plates; list of abbreviations; acknowledgements; preface; PART 1: Introduction; the urban scene; PART 2: Landscape: the house, street and square; prospects, planning, and public buildings; PART 3: Leisure: the arts; arenas of display; sport; PART 4: Society: the economic foundations; the pursuit of status; civility and sociability; cultural differentiation; PART 5: Conclusion: town and nation; Appendices
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