TY - JOUR
AU - Hall, Peter
AB - BooKs 191 British social scientists as ubiquitous truths. By P. J. WALLER. Oxford: Oxford U niver­ This is an astonishing paradox: we would sity Press, 1983. expect that geographers would be sympa­ thetic to variations between localities and This is a socioeconomic history of la te nine­ nations, but, as J ohnston (1984) himself has teenth and early twentieth century England commented, we tend not to know about the (which appears to include, on occasion, academie research produced elsewhere, let Wales), written around the organizing theme alone the social and political realities that of urbanization. After an introductory over­ abound. What this means, in short, is that the view, successive chapters deal with London, basics of British (may be even English) social the other great cities, new growths, such as relations become "thingified" as ubiquitous resorts and suburban towns, and the country­ truths, and a particular form of state relations, side, including country towns. There are th en the primacy of class conflict and the strength two chapters on local government and taxa­ of liberal interventions (as enshrined in public tion before the brief concluding chapter. housing), have ali worked their way into the In his introduction, the author 
TI - Town City and Nation: England 1850–1914
JF - Economic Geography
DO - 10.2307/143877
DA - 1985-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/town-city-and-nation-england-1850-1914-9VBtAERE56
SP - 191
EP - 192
VL - 61
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -