English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography

Richard Dennis

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511560507

To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be classified as 'urban'. In the first full-length treatment of nineteenth-century urbanism from a geographical perspective, Richard Dennia focuses on the industrial towns and cities of Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and South Wales, that epitomised the spirit of the new age. In recent years urban historians and geographers have produced a wide range of detailed studies, both of particular cities and of specific aspects of nineteenth-century urban society, including the housing system, local government, public transport, class structure, residential segregation and social and geographical mobility. Dr Dennis offers a critical review of this research, integrated with his own original study of mobility, social interaction and community in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield.

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A note on prices and distances
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1 - Urban geography and social history
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2 - Sources of diversity among Victorian cities
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3 - Contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century cities
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4 - Public transport and the journey to work
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5 - The geography of housing
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6 - Class consciousness and social stratification
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7 - The spatial structure of nineteenth-century cities
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8 - Residential mobility, persistence and community
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9 - Community and interaction
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10 - The containing context
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vii

List of Tables
pp viii-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

A note on prices and distances
pp xiii-xiv

1 - Urban geography and social history
pp 1-14

2 - Sources of diversity among Victorian cities
pp 15-47

3 - Contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century cities
pp 48-109

4 - Public transport and the journey to work
pp 110-140

5 - The geography of housing
pp 141-185

6 - Class consciousness and social stratification
pp 186-199

7 - The spatial structure of nineteenth-century cities
pp 200-249

8 - Residential mobility, persistence and community
pp 250-269

9 - Community and interaction
pp 270-288

10 - The containing context
pp 289-296

Notes
pp 297-339

Bibliography
pp 340-362

Index
pp 363-368

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