After the Shock City: Urban Culture and the Making of Modern Citizenship

by Tom Hulme

A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century

Using the industrial cities of Manchester and Chicago as case studies, this book traces the idea of citizenship across different areas of local life in the first half of the twentieth century - from philosophy and festivals to historical re-enactment and public housing. Coalitions of voluntary associations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933494
• ISBN13: 9780861933495
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"