{"product_id":"the-cambridge-urban-history-of-britain-3-volume-hardback-set-multiple-component-retail-product-9780521801553","title":"The Cambridge Urban History of Britain 3 Volume Hardback Set (Multiple-component retail product) 9780521801553","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Urban History of Britain 3 Volume Hardback Set\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTracing the complex history of British towns from the Anglo-Saxon settlements to the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eD. M. Palliser (Edited by), Peter Clark (Edited by), Martin Daunton (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521801553, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMultiple-component retail product, published 25 January 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e2886 pages, 146 b\/w illus.  56 maps  60 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16.4 x 16.4 cm, 5.55 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… splendid collection, which is at once an excellent urban history of Britain and a history of Britain from the urban perspective … fresh as well as important, interesting as well as judicious, thoughtful as well as scholarly. The volumes bulge with knowledge … alongside this must be recorded the sheer exhilaration of reading so much first-rate scholarship … Urban history and these volumes will be done a disservice if they are classified in a misleadingly narrow fashion.' Jeremy Black, The Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe three volumes of The Cambridge Urban History of Britain represent the culmination of a tremendous upsurge of research in British urban history over the past thirty years. Mobilising the combined expertise of nearly ninety historians, archaeologists and geographers from Britain, continental Europe and North America, these volumes trace the complex and diverse evolution of British towns from the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlements to the mid-twentieth century. Taken together they form a comprehensive and uniquely authoritative account of the development of the first modern urban nation.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVolume 1: Preface\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003cbr\u003e Maps and figures\u003cbr\u003e Tables\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introductory: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. The origins of British towns\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Early Middle Ages c.650–c.1300: 3. General survey\u003cbr\u003e 4. Power and authority\u003cbr\u003e 5. Society and population\u003cbr\u003e 6. The economy of British towns\u003cbr\u003e 7. Churches, education and literacy in towns\u003cbr\u003e 8. The topography of towns\u003cbr\u003e 9. London from the post-Roman period to 1300\u003cbr\u003e 10. The large towns to c.1300\u003cbr\u003e 11. Small towns 650–1270\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Later Middle Ages c.1300–c.1540: 12. General survey\u003cbr\u003e 13. Government, power and authority\u003cbr\u003e 14. The economy of British towns\u003cbr\u003e 15. Urban culture and the church\u003cbr\u003e 16. The built environment\u003cbr\u003e 17. London\u003cbr\u003e 18. The greater towns\u003cbr\u003e 19. Port towns: England and Wales\u003cbr\u003e 20. Small towns 1270–1540\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Regional Surveys: 21. Regional introduction (England and Wales)\u003cbr\u003e 22 (a). The south-east of England\u003cbr\u003e 22 (b). The south-west of England\u003cbr\u003e 22 (c). The Midlands\u003cbr\u003e 22 (d). East Anglia\u003cbr\u003e 22 (e). Wales and the Marches\u003cbr\u003e 22 (f). Northern towns\u003cbr\u003e 23. Scotland\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Conclusion: 24. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: ranking lists of English medieval towns\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index. Volume 2: Preface\u003cbr\u003e Plates\u003cbr\u003e Maps and figures\u003cbr\u003e Tables\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Area Surveys 1540–1840: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. England: 1. East Anglia\u003cbr\u003e 2. South east\u003cbr\u003e 3. South west\u003cbr\u003e 4. Midlands\u003cbr\u003e 5. The north\u003cbr\u003e 3. Wales\u003cbr\u003e 4. Scotland\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Urban Themes and Types 1540–1700: 5. Towns in an agrarian economy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Population and disease, estrangement and belonging\u003cbr\u003e 7. Politics and government\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reformation and culture\u003cbr\u003e 9. The urban landscape\u003cbr\u003e 10. London\u003cbr\u003e 11. Great and good towns\u003cbr\u003e 12. Ports\u003cbr\u003e 13. Small market towns\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Urban Themes and Types 1700 to 1840: 14. Urban growth and economic change\u003cbr\u003e 15. Population and society\u003cbr\u003e 16. Politics and government\u003cbr\u003e 17. Culture and leisure\u003cbr\u003e 18. The transformation of urban space\u003cbr\u003e 19. London\u003cbr\u003e 20. Regional and county centres\u003cbr\u003e 21. The ports\u003cbr\u003e 22. Small towns\u003cbr\u003e 23. Health and leisure resorts\u003cbr\u003e 24. Industrialising towns\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Select bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index. Volume 3: General editor's preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e List of figures and illustrations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Circulation: 2. Urban networks\u003cbr\u003e 3. Modern London\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ports\u003cbr\u003e 5. The development of small towns in Britain\u003cbr\u003e 6. Migration\u003cbr\u003e 7. Pollution in the city\u003cbr\u003e 8. From Shillibeer to Buchanan: transport and the urban environment\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Governance: 9. Central government and the towns\u003cbr\u003e 10. The changing functions of urban government: councillors, officials and pressure groups\u003cbr\u003e 11. The political economy of urban utilities\u003cbr\u003e 12. The provision of social services\u003cbr\u003e 13. Structure, culture and society in British towns\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Construction: 14. Patterns on the ground: urban form, residential structure and the social construction of space\u003cbr\u003e 15. Land, property and planning\u003cbr\u003e 16. The evolution of Britain's urban built environment\u003cbr\u003e 17. The planners and the public\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Getting and Spending: 18. Industrialisation and the city economy\u003cbr\u003e 19. The urban labour market\u003cbr\u003e 20. Urban fertility and mortality patterns\u003cbr\u003e 21. The middle class\u003cbr\u003e 22. Towns and consumerism\u003cbr\u003e 23. Playing and praying: leisure and religion in urban Britain\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Images: 24. The representation of the city in visual arts\u003cbr\u003e 25. 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