Victorian Cities: Manchester; Leeds; Birmingham; Middlesbrough; Melbourne; London (Pelican S.)

by Asa Briggs (Author)

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  Paperback
  1968

  $3.36

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $4.18

  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.