Urban Humanist
Sydney Checkland, 15 September 1983
Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History by H.J. Dyos
edited by David Cannadine and David Reeder.
Cambridge, 258 pp., £20, September 1982,0 521 24624 5 Show More
edited by David Cannadine and David Reeder.
Cambridge, 258 pp., £20, September 1982,
Themes in Urban History: Patricians, Power and Politics in 19th-Century Towns
edited by David Cannadine.
Leicester University Press, 224 pp., £16.50, October 1982,9780718511937 Show More
edited by David Cannadine.
Leicester University Press, 224 pp., £16.50, October 1982,
“... stemmed from the basic nature of his approach. He tended to begin with urban agglomeration (what David Reeder in his useful introduction calls ‘accretive growth’), seen as a process of population concentration, with resultant shifts in the national rural-urban balance, together with related demographic changes within the two modes of life. From ... ”
