Oxford : studies in the history of a university town since 1800

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Oxford : studies in the history of a university town since 1800

edited by R.C. Whiting

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

A description of the development of the town of Oxford since 1800, which, while acknowledging and detailing the influence of the university and its dons upon the town, still places emphasis on other aspects of life there - political, social, architectural, historical and modern.

Table of Contents

  • Intellect and civic responsibility - dons and citizens in 19th century Oxford, Anthony C. Howe
  • architecture and townscape since 1800, Peter Howell
  • landownership in the city - St John's College, 1800-1968, Tanis Hinchcliffe
  • responses to growth in modern Oxford, D. Ian Scargill
  • infant welfare between the wars, Elizabeth Peretz
  • association and separation in the working class 1920-1970, R.C. Whiting
  • Oxford politics 1945-1990, Robert Waller.

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