The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City, 1840-1914

by SimonGunn (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $23.00

  Studies the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.