Two capitals
Subtitle: London and Dublin, 1500-1840
By: edited by Peter Clark & Raymond Gillespie.
Contributors: Clark, Peter, 1944-; Gillespie, Raymond.; British Academy.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy,; 107
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: London (England) -- History -- Congresses.; Dublin (Ireland) -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This is a comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the 16th and early 19th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Substantially rev. papers from a conference held in Dublin in April 1998.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1; title: PETER CLARK & RAYMOND GILLESPIE; title: 2 Growth, modernisation and control: the transformation of London's landscape, c.1500-c. 1760 7; title: DEREK KEENE; title: 3 The changing face of Dublin, 1550-1750 39; title: COLM LENNON; title: 4 Managing the metropolis: London's social problems and their control, c.1660-1830 53; title: JOANNA INNES; title: 5 Police and public order in eighteenth-century Dublin 81; title: NEAL GARNHAM; title: 6 Hanoverian London: the making of a service town 93; title: LEONARD SCHWARZ; title: 7 Death of a capital? Dublin and the consequences of Union 111; title: DAVID DICKSON; title: 8 Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs 133; title: IAN W. ARCHER; title: 9 The shaping of Dublin government in the long eighteenth century 149; title: J.R. HILL; title: 10 London, 1660-1800: a distinctive culture? 167; title: PETER BORSAY; title: 11 'Grand metropolis' or 'The anus of the world'? The cultural life of eighteenth-century Dublin 185; title: T.C. BARNARD; title: 12 The Church of England in London in the eighteenth century 211; title: VIVIANE BARRIE; title: 13 Religion and urban society: the case of early modern Dublin 223; title: RAYMOND GILLESPIE; title: 14 The multi-centred metropolis: the social and cultural landscapes of London, 1600-1840 239; title: PETER CLARK; title: 15 The multi-centred metropolis: the social topography of eighteenth-century Dublin 265; title: EDEL SHERIDAN-QUANTZ.