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The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840–1914 - Hardcover
Tracing the creation of a distinctive high culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, this study argues for the importance of ritualized modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the 19th-century city.
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.,."a first-rate book that draws on the scholarship of several disciplines and puts the English story in a European context."-- "Choice".,."Gunn makes an important contribution to Victorian studies."--Harold Perkin, "Victorian Studies" ..."a first-rate book that draws on the scholarship of several disciplines and puts the English story in a European context."-- "Choice"..."Gunn makes an important contribution to Victorian studies."--Harold Perkin, "Victorian Studies"
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Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester
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- PublisherManchester University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0719057159
- ISBN 13 9780719057151
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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