The origins of the 'creative class': Provincial urban society, scientific culture and socio-political marginality in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Social History

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 361-387

  Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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CULTURAL IDENTITY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; URBAN SOCIETY;

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EID: 0345581164     PISSN: 03071022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0307102032000119065     Document Type: Article

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