COLLECTED ESSAYS VOL 2: Volume II
Subtitle: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: February 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780252060052
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Great Britain - History; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: American; British Isles; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Great Britain
First sentence: Already before the middle years of the nineteenth century a British writer had described the period in which he was living as 'the age of great cities' and Benjamin Disraeli had advised his fellow countrymen to visit Manchester, 'the most wonderful city of modern times', if they wished to understand the world was moving.