Why did slums and suburbs develop simultaneously? Were class antagonisms to blame? Why did the Victorians believe there was a housing problem? The history of housing between 1780 and 1914 encapsulates many problems associated with the transition from a largely rural to an overwhelmingly urban nation, whose unprecedented pace imposed immense tensions within society. This book reviews the recent arguments and guides the student of social history to further reading, making it an ideal introduction to a central issue in nineteenth-century history.
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"...Rodger's study is an excellent introduction to the social, economic, and political issues related to urban housing. Students at the undergraduate and graduate level will benefit from reading this introduction and then using both the notes and the updated bibliographical essay for further study." Vladimir Steffel, Historian
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The history of housing between 1780 and 1914 encapsulates many problems associated with the transition from a largely rural to an overwhelmingly urban nation. This study reviews the recent arguments and guides the student of social history to further reading.
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This book is really written for the professional historian, not the casual reader, but as a research document, it is quite good. Surveying the general state of housing in the United Kingdom with a primary focus on poor and middle-class dwellings, the book is complete and thorough, despite its relative brevity. If you want a handle on what terrace housing was like, and the conditions of the poor throughout the late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras, the text will be useful to you.
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By the 1840s the widespread existence of defective housing in cities throughout Britain was known and the term 'slum' had assumed common usage (Dyos, 1967, 8). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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By the 1840s the widespread existence of defective housing in cities throughout Britain was known and the term 'slum' had assumed common usage (Dyos, 1967, 8). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First World War, Royal Commission, West Riding, Local Improvement Acts New!
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- Study of Urban History by H. J. Dyos in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London (London Research Series in Geography) by J. A. Yelling in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- British Town Planning: The Formative Years by Anthony Sutcliffe in Back Matter
- The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume 3: 1939-1992 by Roderick Floud in Back Matter
- Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment by Linda Clarke in Back Matter
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- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 8: Sixth Series (Royal Historical Society Transactions) by Royal Historical Society on page 100
- Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Gerald Newman on page 129
- Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951 by Eric Hopkins in Back Matter
- The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century by Richard Rodger in Front Matter
- Industrialisation and Society: A Social History, 1830-1951 by Eric Hopkins in Back Matter
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