Black Country élites : the exercise of authority in an industrialized area, 1830-1900
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Black Country élites : the exercise of authority in an industrialized area, 1830-1900
（Oxford historical monographs）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [405]-425
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
leaders, who were well linked to regional and national power centres.
Richard H. Trainor's extensively researched and richly documented analysis suggests the need to re-examine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by land, the professions, and finance. Instead he indicates the complex give-and-take between the metropolis and its notables, on the one hand, and the industrial provinces and their leaders, on the other. The book is both a substantial addition to regional studies of Victorian Britain, and an
important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century elites and of the urban middle class.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - the approach
- place and people
- elite structures and attitudes
- the changing face of discipline - industrial relations and public order
- co-operation and competition - partisan and religious institutions
- participation, services and ceremonies - the development of local government
- coercion and consensus - the Poor Law and philanthropy
- conclusion - the impact and implications of Black Country elites. Appendices: social classification
- identification and analysis of local elites
- supplementary information on elite members.
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