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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Proceedings of the British Academy ; 107Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c2001.Description: vi, 311 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780197262474 .
  • 9780197262474 .
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- PETER CLARK & RAYMOND GILLESPIE -- 2 Growth, modernisation and control: the transformation of London's landscape, c.1500-c. 1760 7 -- DEREK KEENE -- 3 The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750 39 -- COLM LENNON -- 4 Managing the metropolis: London's social problems and their control, c.1660-1830 53 -- JOANNA INNES -- 5 Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin 81 -- NEAL GARNHAM -- 6 Hanoverian London: the making of a service town 93 -- LEONARD SCHWARZ -- 7 Death of a capital? Dublin and the consequences of Union 111 -- DAVID DICKSON -- 8 Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs 133 -- IAN W. ARCHER -- 9 The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century 149 -- J.R. HILL -- 10 London, 1660-1800: a distinctive culture? 167 -- PETER BORSAY -- 11 'Grand metropolis' or 'The anus of the world'? The cultural life of eighteenth-century Dublin 185 -- T.C. BARNARD -- 12 The Church of England in London in the eighteenth century 211 -- VIVIANE BARRIE -- 13 Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin 223 -- RAYMOND GILLESPIE -- 14 The multi-centred metropolis: the social and cultural landscapes of London, 1600-1840 239 -- PETER CLARK -- 15 The multi-centred metropolis: the social topography of eighteenth-century Dublin 265 -- EDEL SHERIDAN-QUANTZ.
Summary: This is a comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the 16th and early 19th centuries.
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Substantially rev. papers from a conference held in Dublin in April 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 -- PETER CLARK & RAYMOND GILLESPIE -- 2 Growth, modernisation and control: the transformation of London's landscape, c.1500-c. 1760 7 -- DEREK KEENE -- 3 The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750 39 -- COLM LENNON -- 4 Managing the metropolis: London's social problems and their control, c.1660-1830 53 -- JOANNA INNES -- 5 Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin 81 -- NEAL GARNHAM -- 6 Hanoverian London: the making of a service town 93 -- LEONARD SCHWARZ -- 7 Death of a capital? Dublin and the consequences of Union 111 -- DAVID DICKSON -- 8 Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs 133 -- IAN W. ARCHER -- 9 The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century 149 -- J.R. HILL -- 10 London, 1660-1800: a distinctive culture? 167 -- PETER BORSAY -- 11 'Grand metropolis' or 'The anus of the world'? The cultural life of eighteenth-century Dublin 185 -- T.C. BARNARD -- 12 The Church of England in London in the eighteenth century 211 -- VIVIANE BARRIE -- 13 Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin 223 -- RAYMOND GILLESPIE -- 14 The multi-centred metropolis: the social and cultural landscapes of London, 1600-1840 239 -- PETER CLARK -- 15 The multi-centred metropolis: the social topography of eighteenth-century Dublin 265 -- EDEL SHERIDAN-QUANTZ.

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

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