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Black Country Élites: The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area, 1830-1900 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
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Product Description
Black Country Élites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban élites 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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1770039 in Books
- Published on: 1993-12-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"His study of the rise of a confident, largely successful, and proudly heterogeneous Black Country elite can unquestionably take its place beside the major urban and regional studies of Victorian England."--American Historical Review
"Trainor's study of the Black Country elites provoke[s] a rehearing, and furthermore it indicates the robustness of detailed studies of local exercise of authority within the changing field of British social history."--Journal of Social History
"An extremely detailed and thorough examination of the authority wielded by individuals holding leadership posts in the major institutions of the Black Country...Richard Trainor intends his book to be a contribution to the role that the leaders of the industrial provinces played in Victorian society, and indeed, it is a valuable addition to the literature on this subject."--Albion
