 | Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century: Uneasy neighbours? Subjects: Humanities; Social Sciences; Urban Studies; Class and Work; Rural and Urban Life; Crime and Punishment; Recreation and Consumption; Sociology & Social Policy; Urban Economics; Urban Sociology - Urban Studies; History; Social Groups; Urbanisation; The Rural Environment; The Urban Environment; Types of Towns and Cities; Criminals; The Legal System; Shops and Shopping; Economic Developments; Urban History; Economic History; Sociology of Culture; Working Classes; Migration; Industrial Cities; Policing ; Market Towns; Market and Fairs; Agricultural Revolution; Public Architecture; The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and politics, criminology, literature and demographics. Mary Hammond is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK, and founding Director of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research. Barry Sloan is Professor of English at the University of Southampton and a member of the Southampton Centre of Nineteenth-Century Research. |
