A Social History of Housing 1815-1985

Second Edition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-13350-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Housing

Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and important survey, covering over a century and a half of developments in housing conditions both urban and rural, public and private, and tracing the evolution of mass housing through by-law terraces, back-to-backs and the tower block to the low-rise, high-density estates of the 1980s.

Zielgruppe

Adult education, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burnett, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Acknowledgements. Preface to the Second Edition.  Part I: 1815–1850 1. People and Houses 2. The Cottage Homes of England 3. The Housing of the Urban Working Classes 4. Middle-Class Housing  Part II: 1850–1914 5. Housing the Labourer 6. Housing the Multitude 7. Housing the Suburbans  Part III: 1918–1985 8. Council Housing 1918–1939 9. Speculative Housing 1918–1939 10. Public and Private Housing 1945–1985 11. Retrospect and Prospect. Notes and References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John Burnett (1925–2006) was Professor of Social History at Brunel University. His research was concerned with the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. He was the author of Plenty and Want (1966), A History of the Cost of Living (1969), A Social History of Housing, 1815-1985 (1986), Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (1999) and England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present (2004). With David Vincent and David Mayall, he published the three-volume annotated bibliography, The Autobiography of the Working Class (1984-1989).