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Title Culture in Manchester : institutions and urban change since 1850 / edited by Janet Wolff ; with Mike Savage.

Publication Info. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) : black and white illustrations
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Series JSTOR EBA.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Manchester : city of culture -- Calico connections : science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester -- Counting the coppers : John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens -- Manufacturing the Renaissance : modern merchant princes and the origins of the Manchester Dante Society -- The image of a well-ordered city : nineteenth-century Manchester architecture and the urban spectator -- 'He saw the city and wept' : the Manchester and Salford Methodist Mission 1910-60 -- A case of comsmopolitanism : the Manchester International Club -- Cultue, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester -- Class conflict on the myth of cultural 'inclusion' in modern Manchester.
Summary This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution.
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Subject Manchester (England) -- Civilization.
Manchester (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Manchester (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Civilization.
Manners and customs.
England -- Manchester.
Society.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Added Author Wolff, Janet, editor.
Savage, Michael, 1959- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9780719090387 0719090385 (OCoLC)849209025
ISBN 9781781707128 (electronic book)
178170712X (electronic book)
9781526102089 (electronic book)
1526102080 (electronic book)
9780719090387
0719090385