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VICTORIAN CITIES IBD

PENGUIN
09 / 1990
9780140135824
Inglés

Sinopsis

In 1837 in England and Wales there were only five provincial cities of more than 100 000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period London?s population more than doubled.In this companion volume to Victorian People and Victorian Things Lord Briggs focuses on the cities of Manchester Leeds Birmingham Middlesbrough Melbourne (an example of a Victorian community overseas) and London comparing and contrasting their social political and topographical development. Full of illuminating detail Victorian Cities presents a unique social political and economic bird?s-eye view of the past.

PVP
20,82