Simon Gunn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 131373 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon Gunn |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | Gunn |
| ASSINATURA | GUNN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8559-0673 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
In search of the bourgeoisie
Bob (or R.J.) Morris was probably best known in academic circles for his histories of class and specifically the British middle class. This essay traces his thinking about class in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain from an early study of class consciousness to his later attempts to rework ideas about social structure and culture in a post-Weberian direction. A feature of this intellectual trajectory was the increasing importance of …
R.J. Morris
The essays that follow aim to capture aspects of the unique style of R.J. Morris, aspects which taken together represent the formidable legacy that he leaves to the global world of urban history
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain
What difference did increasing spatial mobility make to British society between the 1950s and the 1980s? This article represents an historical response to the challenge of the ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences. It brings together the study of migration, personal mobility and transport to reflect on the ‘high-speed mobile society’ emerging in parts of Britain by the 1960s. The article analyses the very different forms of mobility evident in…
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading ‘motor cities’, Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Brita…
Malarial Subjects
Reviewed by: Malarial Subjects: Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 by Rohan Deb Roy Simon Gunn Malarial Subjects: Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 By Rohan Deb Roy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Malaria was one of the major disease-generating conditions of the nineteenth century. It was a global disease and one that was believed to underpin a cluster of conditions which varied over …
Ring Road
Reconstructing Britain's cities to accommodate the ‘motor revolution’ was an integral part of urban renewal in the post-war decades. This article shows how opposition to urban motorways had a pivotal role in the retreat from urban modernism in the 1970s. It takes as its case-study Birmingham, Britain's premier motor city, headquarters of the motor industry, and with heavy investment in roads, including the Inner Ring, Britain's first urban motorw…
Research Methods for History
Urban agency
What difference do cities make? How the urban – and place more generally – have contributed to historical processes is one of the questions that continually confront urban historians. Should towns and cities be regarded as no more than the backdrop against which events and developments – industrialization, social conflict, war – are played out? Or do cities and urbanism more widely possess agency? Do they (as many urbanists claim) have an active …
European Urbanities since 1945
Europe's history since 1945 has most commonly been seen through the prism of international politics and economic change, from post-war reconstruction to late twentieth-century deindustrialisation. Urban history has been tangential to these accounts. Hence Leif Jerram's call to arms in his book Streetlife , published in 2011: ‘it is time to put the where into the what and why of history’. The history of Europe's twentieth century, Jerram declared,…
People and the car
In April 1960 Patrick Gordon Walker addressed the British House of Commons as part of a debate on road traffic. His theme was visionary. The car, Walker announced, is the major dynamic factor for s
Post-Industrial Place, Multicultural Space
Later twentieth-century Britain experienced two fundamental historical shifts: the collapse of manufacturing industry and the emergence of a multicultural society. Taking the city of Leicester as a case-study, this article explores the interconnected histories of these two processes. In the 1970s and 1980s Leicester witnessed simultaneously the sharp contraction of its manufacturing base and the creation of a large, permanent Asian community. Whi…
Illuminating the Victorian city
The Rise and Fall of British Urban Modernism
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Indian Ink
Miles Ogborn, Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (University of Chicago Press, 2007, xxiii + 318 pp., ISBN: 978-0-226-62041-1, 27.50 (hardback)) The East I
Time and the shape of history - By Penelope J. Corfield
Practising reflexivity
This article examines the impact of the theoretical currents associated with the postmodern turn of the 1980s and 1990s on the teaching of history in universities in England and Wales. Emphasising the centrality of teaching to historians' own professional identity, the article uses information derived from a web survey, course literature and interviews in order to analyse the theoretical components of curricula and pedagogy at honours and Masters…
Nature, technology and the modern city
Translating Bourdieu
This article examines the ways in which Pierre Bourdieu's work on culture and cultural capital can be applied to the study of the English middle class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on a wide historical literature, the article argues for the significance of culture as a constitutive element of middle-class identities in England since 1800. It goes on to examine Bourdieu's ideas of 'objectivated', 'instutionalized' and 'incorpo…
Class, identity and the urban
The article considers the relationship between the middle class and urban place in England. Using the concept of identity, it examines changes in the meaning of the term ‘middle class’ between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth century and how these changes were related to the configuration of urbanity. In the earlier twentieth century, it is argued, state and nation replaced the urban as the principal referent for middle-class identity
City of Mirrors
(2002). City of Mirrors: The Arcades Project and urban history. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 263-275
Knowledge, power and the city since 1700
The Sublime and the Vulgar
(1997). The Sublime and the Vulgar: the Halle concerts and the constitution of ‘high culture’ in Manchester c. 1850–1880. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 208-228
The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80
(1996). The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 22-36
Short notices
Henry Heller, Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth‐Century France (1991), xiv + 191 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, £26.95). B. J. Davey, Rural Crime in Eighteenth Century England: North Lincolnshire 1740–80 (1994), xv + 167 (University of Hull Press, Hull, £9.95). John Breuilly, Labour and Liberalism in Nineteenth‐century Europe: Essays in Comparative History (1992), 336 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00, paperback £14.99). I…
Translating Bourdieu
This article examines the ways in which Pierre Bourdieu's work on culture and cultural capital can be applied to the study of the English middle class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on a wide historical literature, the article argues for the significance of culture as a constitutive element of middle-class identities in England since 1800. It goes on to examine Bourdieu's ideas of 'objectivated', 'instutionalized' and 'incorpo…
People and the car
In April 1960 Patrick Gordon Walker addressed the British House of Commons as part of a debate on road traffic. His theme was visionary. The car, Walker announced, is the major dynamic factor for s
The Rise and Fall of British Urban Modernism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ring Road
Reconstructing Britain's cities to accommodate the ‘motor revolution’ was an integral part of urban renewal in the post-war decades. This article shows how opposition to urban motorways had a pivotal role in the retreat from urban modernism in the 1970s. It takes as its case-study Birmingham, Britain's premier motor city, headquarters of the motor industry, and with heavy investment in roads, including the Inner Ring, Britain's first urban motorw…
The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80
(1996). The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 22-36
Class, identity and the urban
The article considers the relationship between the middle class and urban place in England. Using the concept of identity, it examines changes in the meaning of the term ‘middle class’ between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth century and how these changes were related to the configuration of urbanity. In the earlier twentieth century, it is argued, state and nation replaced the urban as the principal referent for middle-class identity
Practising reflexivity
This article examines the impact of the theoretical currents associated with the postmodern turn of the 1980s and 1990s on the teaching of history in universities in England and Wales. Emphasising the centrality of teaching to historians' own professional identity, the article uses information derived from a web survey, course literature and interviews in order to analyse the theoretical components of curricula and pedagogy at honours and Masters…
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain
What difference did increasing spatial mobility make to British society between the 1950s and the 1980s? This article represents an historical response to the challenge of the ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences. It brings together the study of migration, personal mobility and transport to reflect on the ‘high-speed mobile society’ emerging in parts of Britain by the 1960s. The article analyses the very different forms of mobility evident in…
Nature, technology and the modern city
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
Post-Industrial Place, Multicultural Space
Later twentieth-century Britain experienced two fundamental historical shifts: the collapse of manufacturing industry and the emergence of a multicultural society. Taking the city of Leicester as a case-study, this article explores the interconnected histories of these two processes. In the 1970s and 1980s Leicester witnessed simultaneously the sharp contraction of its manufacturing base and the creation of a large, permanent Asian community. Whi…
The Sublime and the Vulgar
(1997). The Sublime and the Vulgar: the Halle concerts and the constitution of ‘high culture’ in Manchester c. 1850–1880. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 208-228
Urban agency
What difference do cities make? How the urban – and place more generally – have contributed to historical processes is one of the questions that continually confront urban historians. Should towns and cities be regarded as no more than the backdrop against which events and developments – industrialization, social conflict, war – are played out? Or do cities and urbanism more widely possess agency? Do they (as many urbanists claim) have an active …
European Urbanities since 1945
Europe's history since 1945 has most commonly been seen through the prism of international politics and economic change, from post-war reconstruction to late twentieth-century deindustrialisation. Urban history has been tangential to these accounts. Hence Leif Jerram's call to arms in his book Streetlife , published in 2011: ‘it is time to put the where into the what and why of history’. The history of Europe's twentieth century, Jerram declared,…
Short notices
John T. Swain, Industry before the Industrial Revolution. North‐East Lancashire c. 1500–1640 (1986), xii + 235 (Manchester University Press for the Chetham Society, third series, vol. XXXII, Manchester, £27.50). James Sutherland, The Restoration Newspaper and its Development (1986), ix + 262 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00). Cyril Ehrlich, The Music Profession in Britain since the Eighteenth Century. A Social History (1985), viii +…
Short notices
Henry Heller, Iron and Blood. Civil Wars in Sixteenth‐Century France (1991), xiv + 191 (McGill‐Queen's University Press, £26.95). B. J. Davey, Rural Crime in Eighteenth Century England: North Lincolnshire 1740–80 (1994), xv + 167 (University of Hull Press, Hull, £9.95). John Breuilly, Labour and Liberalism in Nineteenth‐century Europe: Essays in Comparative History (1992), 336 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £35.00, paperback £14.99). I…
The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80
(1996). The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80. Social History: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 22-36
The Sublime and the Vulgar
(1997). The Sublime and the Vulgar: the Halle concerts and the constitution of ‘high culture’ in Manchester c. 1850–1880. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 208-228
City of Mirrors
(2002). City of Mirrors: The Arcades Project and urban history. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 263-275
Knowledge, power and the city since 1700
Class, identity and the urban
The article considers the relationship between the middle class and urban place in England. Using the concept of identity, it examines changes in the meaning of the term ‘middle class’ between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth century and how these changes were related to the configuration of urbanity. In the earlier twentieth century, it is argued, state and nation replaced the urban as the principal referent for middle-class identity
Translating Bourdieu
This article examines the ways in which Pierre Bourdieu's work on culture and cultural capital can be applied to the study of the English middle class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on a wide historical literature, the article argues for the significance of culture as a constitutive element of middle-class identities in England since 1800. It goes on to examine Bourdieu's ideas of 'objectivated', 'instutionalized' and 'incorpo…
Practising reflexivity
This article examines the impact of the theoretical currents associated with the postmodern turn of the 1980s and 1990s on the teaching of history in universities in England and Wales. Emphasising the centrality of teaching to historians' own professional identity, the article uses information derived from a web survey, course literature and interviews in order to analyse the theoretical components of curricula and pedagogy at honours and Masters…
Nature, technology and the modern city
Time and the shape of history - By Penelope J. Corfield
Illuminating the Victorian city
The Rise and Fall of British Urban Modernism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Indian Ink
Miles Ogborn, Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (University of Chicago Press, 2007, xxiii + 318 pp., ISBN: 978-0-226-62041-1, 27.50 (hardback)) The East I
People and the car
In April 1960 Patrick Gordon Walker addressed the British House of Commons as part of a debate on road traffic. His theme was visionary. The car, Walker announced, is the major dynamic factor for s
Post-Industrial Place, Multicultural Space
Later twentieth-century Britain experienced two fundamental historical shifts: the collapse of manufacturing industry and the emergence of a multicultural society. Taking the city of Leicester as a case-study, this article explores the interconnected histories of these two processes. In the 1970s and 1980s Leicester witnessed simultaneously the sharp contraction of its manufacturing base and the creation of a large, permanent Asian community. Whi…
European Urbanities since 1945
Europe's history since 1945 has most commonly been seen through the prism of international politics and economic change, from post-war reconstruction to late twentieth-century deindustrialisation. Urban history has been tangential to these accounts. Hence Leif Jerram's call to arms in his book Streetlife , published in 2011: ‘it is time to put the where into the what and why of history’. The history of Europe's twentieth century, Jerram declared,…
Research Methods for History
Urban agency
What difference do cities make? How the urban – and place more generally – have contributed to historical processes is one of the questions that continually confront urban historians. Should towns and cities be regarded as no more than the backdrop against which events and developments – industrialization, social conflict, war – are played out? Or do cities and urbanism more widely possess agency? Do they (as many urbanists claim) have an active …
Ring Road
Reconstructing Britain's cities to accommodate the ‘motor revolution’ was an integral part of urban renewal in the post-war decades. This article shows how opposition to urban motorways had a pivotal role in the retreat from urban modernism in the 1970s. It takes as its case-study Birmingham, Britain's premier motor city, headquarters of the motor industry, and with heavy investment in roads, including the Inner Ring, Britain's first urban motorw…
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading ‘motor cities’, Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the similarities and differences between Japan and Brita…
Malarial Subjects
Reviewed by: Malarial Subjects: Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 by Rohan Deb Roy Simon Gunn Malarial Subjects: Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 By Rohan Deb Roy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Malaria was one of the major disease-generating conditions of the nineteenth century. It was a global disease and one that was believed to underpin a cluster of conditions which varied over …
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain
What difference did increasing spatial mobility make to British society between the 1950s and the 1980s? This article represents an historical response to the challenge of the ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences. It brings together the study of migration, personal mobility and transport to reflect on the ‘high-speed mobile society’ emerging in parts of Britain by the 1960s. The article analyses the very different forms of mobility evident in…
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship
Taking its cue from the ‘material turn’ of recent years, this survey examines the connections between infrastructure, welfare and citizenship in north European cities in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that connections between these different constructs were fundamental not only to how cities functioned but how citizens themselves were imagined. As such, the survey critiques histories of welfare and citizenship that foregr…
In search of the bourgeoisie
Bob (or R.J.) Morris was probably best known in academic circles for his histories of class and specifically the British middle class. This essay traces his thinking about class in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain from an early study of class consciousness to his later attempts to rework ideas about social structure and culture in a post-Weberian direction. A feature of this intellectual trajectory was the increasing importance of …
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