Exploring the Urban Past by David Cannadine
During the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past was one of the most prominent developments in historical studies in the United Kingdom. In large part, this was due to the work of the late H. J. Dyos, Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester, as teacher, writer and propagandist. This book brings together some of Dyos's most important and influential essays, written over nearly thirty years. At one level, this book may be read as a fitting memorial to the work, influence and writings of a first-rate historian; at another, it furnishes an indispensable guide to the study of urban development and the nineteenth-century city and to the perspective which that study affords on the urban present.David Cannadine is a history professor at London University and the director of the Institute of Historical Research. He has written several books, including The Pleasures of the Past, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, and G.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521288484 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521288487 |
| Title | Exploring the Urban Past |
| Author | David Cannadine |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1982-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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