Spaces of modernity : London's geographies, 1680-1780

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Spaces of modernity : London's geographies, 1680-1780

Miles Ogborn

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Guilford Press, c1998

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Bibliography: p. 305-333

Includes index

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Description

From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the geographies of eighteenth-century London. Ogborn draws upon a wide variety of textual and visual sources to illuminate processes of commodification, individualization, state formation, and the transformation of the public sphere within the new spaces of the metropolis.

Table of Contents

Contents 1. Spaces of Modernity 2. The Magdalen Hospital 3. The Street 4. The Pleasure Garden 5. Excise Geographies 6. The Universal Register Office 7. Maps of Modernity

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