Urban renaissance and consumer revolution in Nottingham, 1688-1750

Urban History

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-50

  Beckett, John ^a   Smith, Catherine ^a  

^a NONE

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CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN HISTORY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033909922     PISSN: 09639268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963926800000122     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. J. Langton, 'Residential patterns in pre-industrial cities: some case studies from seventeenth-century Britain', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 65 (1975), 1-27; M. Aston and J. Bond, The Landscape of Towns (London, 1976); P. Clark (ed.), The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800 (London, 1984), 43-4.
2. J. Langton, 'Residential patterns in pre-industrial cities: some case studies from seventeenth-century Britain', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 65 (1975), 1-27; M. Aston and J. Bond, The Landscape of Towns (London, 1976); P. Clark (ed.), The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800 (London, 1984), 43-4.
3. J. Langton, 'Residential patterns in pre-industrial cities: some case studies from seventeenth-century Britain', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 65 (1975), 1-27; M. Aston and J. Bond, The Landscape of Towns (London, 1976); P. Clark (ed.), The Transformation of English Provincial Towns, 1600-1800 (London, 1984), 43-4.
4. The concept is most closely argued in Peter Borsay's book, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989). We are aware of the criticism of this concept voiced by Angus McInnes, 'The emergence of a leisure town: Shrewsbury 1660-1760', Past and Present, 120 (1988), 53-87. However, McInnes's suggestion that towns be re-categorized into four functional types, market, industrial, port and leisure, would hardly fit a town such as Nottingham (or for that matter its neighbours Derby and Leicester) which was a market and a manufacturing town in addition to being a leisure town. See also the debate between Borsay and McInnes in Past and Present, 126 (1990), 189-202.
5. The concept is most closely argued in Peter Borsay's book, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989). We are aware of the criticism of this concept voiced by Angus McInnes, 'The emergence of a leisure town: Shrewsbury 1660-1760', Past and Present, 120 (1988), 53-87. However, McInnes's suggestion that towns be re-categorized into four functional types, market, industrial, port and leisure, would hardly fit a town such as Nottingham (or for that matter its neighbours Derby and Leicester) which was a market and a manufacturing town in addition to being a leisure town. See also the debate between Borsay and McInnes in Past and Present, 126 (1990), 189-202.
6. The concept is most closely argued in Peter Borsay's book, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town, 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989). We are aware of the criticism of this concept voiced by Angus McInnes, 'The emergence of a leisure town: Shrewsbury 1660-1760', Past and Present, 120 (1988), 53-87. However, McInnes's suggestion that towns be re-categorized into four functional types, market, industrial, port and leisure, would hardly fit a town such as Nottingham (or for that matter its neighbours Derby and Leicester) which was a market and a manufacturing town in addition to being a leisure town. See also the debate between Borsay and McInnes in Past and Present, 126 (1990), 189-202.
7. J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds), Consumption and the World of Goods (London, 1993), particularly the contributions by Shammas, Weatherill and de Vries; L. Weatherill, Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760, 2nd edn (London, 1996).
8. J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds), Consumption and the World of Goods (London, 1993), particularly the contributions by Shammas, Weatherill and de Vries; L. Weatherill, Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760, 2nd edn (London, 1996).