The English urban renaissance culture and society in the provinical town, 1660-1770
In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This study examines the economic and social origins which stimulated such features of the revival as the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical architecture
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
2002, 2002
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Series: | Oxford studies in social history / Oxford studies in social history
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This study examines the economic and social origins which stimulated such features of the revival as the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical architecture |
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Physical Description: | xxii, 416 p. ill., maps |
ISBN: | 9780191675409 |