Black Country Elites: The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area 1830-1900

by Richard H. Trainor

Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban elites 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198203551
• ISBN13: 9780198203551
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"