The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914

by Simon Gunn

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Tracing the creation of a distinctive high culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester, this study argues for the importance of ritualized modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the 19th-century city.
  • ISBN10 0719057159
  • ISBN13 9780719057151
  • Publish Date 19 October 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 May 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Manchester University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English