Research Catalog

Title

Two capitals : London and Dublin, 1500-1840 / edited by Peter Clark & Raymond Gillespie.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Clark, Peter, 1944-
• Gillespie, Raymond.
• British Academy.

Description

vi, 311 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

This is a comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the 16th and early 19th centuries.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 107

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 107.

Subjects

• History
• Conference papers and proceedings
• London
• Dublin
• Ireland > Dublin
• England > London
• Sociaal-economische geschiedenis
• Hauptstadt
• Dublin (Ireland) > History > Congresses
• London (England) > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Substantially rev. papers from a conference held in Dublin in April 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Peter Clark and Raymond Gillespie -- Growth, modernisation and control: the transformation of London's landscape, c. 1500-c.1760 / Derek Keene -- The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750 / Colm Lennon -- Managing the metropolis: London's social problems and their control, c. 1660-1830 / Joanna Innes -- Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin / Neal Garnham -- Hanoverian London: the making of a service town / Leonard Schwarz -- Death of a capital? Dublin and the consequences of Union / David Dickson -- Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs / Ian W. Archer -- The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century / J.R. Hill -- London, 1660-1800: a distinctive culture? / Peter Borsay -- 'Grand metropolis' or 'The anus of the world'? The cultural life of eighteenth-century Dublin / T.C. Barnard -- The Church of England in London in the eighteenth century / Viviane Barrie -- Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin / Raymond Gillespie -- The multi-centred metropolis: the social and cultural landscapes of London, 1600-1840 / Peter Clark -- The multi-centred metropolis: the social topography of eighteenth-century Dublin / Edel Sheridan-Quantz.

ISBN

• 0197262473
• 9780197262474

LCCN

2002510854

OCLC

• ocm47824877
• 47824877
• SCSB-1277612

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library