ISBN:
178170712X
,
1526102080
,
9781781707128
,
9781526102089
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 pages)
,
black and white illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.1
Keywords:
Kultur
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Urban
;
Society
;
Civilization
;
Manners and customs
;
Manchester (England) Social life and customs 20th century
;
Manchester (England) Social life and customs 19th century
;
Manchester (England) Civilization
;
England ; Manchester
;
Manchester
Abstract:
Manchester : city of culture -- Calico connections : science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester -- Counting the coppers : John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens -- Manufacturing the Renaissance : modern merchant princes and the origins of the Manchester Dante Society -- The image of a well-ordered city : nineteenth-century Manchester architecture and the urban spectator -- 'He saw the city and wept' : the Manchester and Salford Methodist Mission 1910-60 -- A case of comsmopolitanism : the Manchester International Club -- Cultue, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester -- Class conflict on the myth of cultural 'inclusion' in modern Manchester.
Abstract:
This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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