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The emergence of stability in the industrial city : Manchester, 1832-67
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ISBN: 1351890743 1315240009 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Urban redevelopment and modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939
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ISBN: 1474257399 1474257372 1474257380 1474257364 1350063835 9781474257398 9781474257374 9781474257381 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,

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"Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars."-- "Faced with economic decline, unprecedented levels of unemployment and new forms of political extremism during Britain's last great economic crash, politicians and planners in Liverpool and Manchester responded by investing in dramatic and ambitious programmes of urban regeneration. Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 is the first book to provide the hitherto unknown story of the innovative transformation of these cities. Charlotte Wildman challenges academic scholarship in British history, which associates the post-1918 period with the emasculation of local government and the decline of civic culture. She shows that local politicians, planners, architects, businessmen and even religious leaders embraced innovative trends in creating distinct forms of urban modernities, which particularly changed the way women experienced the transformed city. Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 offers a complex, interactive and multipolar interpretation of the ways cities develop, pointing to new methods and ways of understanding both interwar Britain and urban history more generally. At a time of debate and discussion about devolution and decentralisation of government, this book makes an opportune contribution to debates about urban governance and regionalism in contemporary Britain"--


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The Irish in Manchester c.1750–1921 : Resistance, adaptation and identity
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ISBN: 9781784996994 1784996998 9780719087196 0719087198 Year: 2016 Publisher: Manchester : Baltimore, Md. : Manchester University Press, Project MUSE,

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The book examines the development of the Irish community in Manchester, one of the most dynamic cities of nineteenth-century Britain. Based on research into a wide variety of local sources, it examines the process by which the Irish came to be blamed for all the ills of the industrial revolution and the ways in which they attempted to cope with a sometimes actively hostile environment. It discusses the nature and degree of residential segregation in one notable Irish district and the role of the Catholic Church as a source of spiritual comfort and the base for a dense network of mutual aid and

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