Wolff / Unknown Culture in Manchester

Institutions and urban change since 1850
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0208-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city’s cultural evolution

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Wolff, Janet

Weitere Mitwirkende

Savage, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Manchester: city of culture – Mike Savage and Janet Wolff
2. Calico connections: science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester – Janet Wolff
3. Counting the coppers: John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens – Michael Powell and Terry Wyke
4. Manufacturing the Renaissance: modern merchant princes and the Manchester Dante Society – Stephen J. Milner
5. The image of a well-ordered city: nineteenth-century Manchester theatre architecture and the urban spectator – Viv Gardner
6. ‘He saw the city and wept’: the Manchester and Salford Methodist mission 1910–60 – Angela Connolly
7. A case of cosmopolitanism: the Manchester International Club – Bill Williams
8. Culture, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester – Andrew Miles
9. Class conflict and the myth of cultural ‘inclusion’ in modern Manchester – Selina Todd
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wolff Janet:
Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of ManchesterSavage Mike:
Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of EconomicsJanet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester
Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics