BLACK COUNTRY ELITES by Professor Richard H. Trainor ( 9780198203551 )

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Title:

BLACK COUNTRY ELITES
THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY IN AN INDUSTRIALIZED AREA, 1830-1900

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0198203551

ISBN 13:

9780198203551

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 December, 1993

Series:

Oxford Historical Monographs

Pages:

456

Description:

This is a study of the Black Country in the nineteenth-century, when the area was at the forefront of Britain's industrial development. The strength of this provincial industrial elite suggests the need to re-examine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by the land, the professions and finance. More than a narrowly focused local study, Richard Trainor's extensively researched and well-integrated analaysisof the urban elites of the region is an important contribution to our understanding of Victorian society.

Synopsis:

Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban elites deployed to cope with urban growth, social unrest, and relative economic decline. Concentrating on a particularly grimy district of the industrial Midlands, the book demonstrates the surprisingly great resources, coherence, sophistication and impact of the area's mainly middle class leaders, who were well linked to regional and national power centres. Richard H. Trainor's extensively researched and richly documented analysis suggests the need to re-examine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by land, the professions, and finance. Instead he indicates the complex give-and-take between the metropolis and its notables, on the one hand, and the industrial provinces and their leaders, on the other. The book is both a substantial addition to regional studies of Victorian Britain, and an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century elites and of the urban middle class.

Illustrations:

4 plates, line figures, map, tables

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Imprint:

Clarendon Press

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Non-returnable

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