In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the transformation of the urban landscape and the remarkable expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure. Peter Borsay penetrates behind the new culture's elegant facade to explore its economic origins and the mixture of social forces which stimulated it: wealth, self-interest, idealism, and snobbery.
In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the transformation of the urban landscape and the remarkable expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure. Peter Borsay penetrates behind the new culture's elegant facade to explore its economic origins and the mixture of social forces which stimulated it: wealth, self-interest, idealism, and snobbery.
List of tables list of maps list of plates list of abbreviations acknowledgements preface PART 1: Introduction the urban scene PART 2: Landscape: the house, street and square prospects, planning, and public buildings PART 3: Leisure: the arts arenas of display sport PART 4: Society: the economic foundations the pursuit of status civility and sociability cultural differentiation PART 5: Conclusion: town and nation Appendices
List of tables list of maps list of plates list of abbreviations acknowledgements preface PART 1: Introduction the urban scene PART 2: Landscape: the house, street and square prospects, planning, and public buildings PART 3: Leisure: the arts arenas of display sport PART 4: Society: the economic foundations the pursuit of status civility and sociability cultural differentiation PART 5: Conclusion: town and nation Appendices
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