Skip to main content
University of California Press

Victorian Cities

by Asa Briggs (Author), Andrew Lees (Foreword by), Lynn Hollen Lees (Foreword by)
Paperback
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: Include United States, Canada
Pages: 411
ISBN: 9780520079229
Series:
Request an Exam or Desk Copy(opens in new window)RightsLink(opens in new window)Read an Excerpt(opens in new window)
Recommend to your Library (PDF)(opens in new window)Rights and Permissions

About the Book

A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well.

About the Author

Asa Briggs, former provost of Worcester College, Oxford, is the author of many works on 19th-century British history.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Andrew and Lynn Hollen Lees
Preface

I Introduction
2 City and Society: Victorian Attitudes
3 Manchester, Symbol of a New Age
4 Leeds, a Study in Civic Pride
5 Birmingham: The Making of a Civic Gospel
6 Middlesbrough: The Growth of a New Community
7 Melbourne, a Victorian Community Overseas
8 London, the World City
9 Epilogue: Old Cities and New

Bibliographical Note
Index