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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.
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.
Asa Briggs was born in 1921 at Keighley, Yorkshire, and from 1955 to 1961 he was Professor of Modern History at Leeds University, and in 1961 he was the first academic to be appointed to the then new University of Sussex. Six years later he was appointed Vice-Chancellor. From 1976 to 1991 he was Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. He was Chancellor of the Open University from 1978 to 1994. In 1976 he was made a life peer. He is married with four children.
His main field of historical research has been in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural history. He has also written A Social History of England, a revised edition of which appeared in 1994. He is currently President of the British Social History Society and of the Victorian Society.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780140135824 |
| ISBN-10: | 0140135820 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Briggs, Asa |
| Hersteller: | Penguin |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Asa Briggs |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 27.09.1990 |
| Gewicht: | 0,496 kg |
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