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  3. The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
  • Cited by 13
  • Volume 3: 1840–1950
  • Edited by Martin Daunton, University of Cambridge
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2008
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9781139053839
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521417075
Subjects:
Geography, British History: General Interest, British History after 1450, Historical Geography, History
Collection:
Cambridge Histories - British & European History
Series:
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
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Book description

The third volume in The Cambridge Urban History of Britain examines the process of urbanisation and suburbanisation from the early Victorian period to the twentieth century. Twenty-eight leading scholars provide a coherent, systematic, historical investigation of the rise of cities and towns in England, Scotland and Wales, examining not only the evolving networks and types of towns, but their economic, demographic, social, political, cultural and physical development. The contributors discuss pollution and disease, the resolution of social conflict, the relationships between towns and the surrounding countryside, new opportunities for leisure and consumption, the development of local civic institutions and identities, and the evolution of municipal and state responsibilities. This comprehensive volume gives unique insights into the development of the urban landscape. Its detailed overview and analyses of the problems and opportunities which arise shed historical light on many of the issues and challenges that we face today.

Reviews

‘Under the editorship of Martin Daunton, a formidable field of contributors has been assembled. Those contributors have produced a volume which covers virtually every conceivable aspect of British urban history from the mid-nineteenth century to the aftermath of the Second World War.’

Source: History

‘This is a truly astonishing volume - it presents an absorbing array of urban history research that is high in quality and ‘modern’ in its combination of order and diversity. It is well written and up-to-date and its photographs and figures provide an evocative visual commentary. This is a major landmark in urban history - scholarly, stimulating and immensely enjoyable.’

Source: London Journal

‘… the result is a large and extremely impressive work which will be of relevance to a great many modern historians, and which truly demonstrates the vitality of its field … Indeed this 900-page volume … seems destined to become a seminal work for a generation.’

Source: Welsh History Review

‘This is a feast of a book …’

Source: Urban Studies

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Contents
  • 25 - Epilogue
    pp 833-840
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    Summary

    The third volume of the Cambridge Urban History of Britain comes to a close around 1950. It has explained how crisis and rupture in the second quarter of the nineteenth century were resolved in the later nineteenth century, through the creation of voluntary associations and an active municipal culture to deal with problems of 'free riders' and urban diseconomies. The issues of urban externalities, of systems of governance, of contesting claims on the urban environment are still important issues in contemporary Britain. The difficulties of resolving these issues have been intensified by disruption of urban governance. The creation of out-of-town shopping and new suburban estates has been countered by another trend, of regeneration of the inner city. The economic regeneration of some towns rests on the arrival of investment from overseas, such as the Nissan car plant in Sunderland or Toyota in Derby, in place of the locally owned shipyards and railway workshops.

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