The Development of London as a Centre of Conspicuous Consumption in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11005017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F J Fisher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1948 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Pages | 37-50 |
| Publication date | 1948-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3678697 |
| OpenAlex | W2169721416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 1 |
Of all forms of historical writing, that which deals with particular places is perhaps the most pregnant with the possibilities of boredom, for the general reader can seldom hope to share the parochial enthusiasms by which the study of local history is so often inspired. But local history, and particularly urban history, can be approached from two different points of view. It can seek to portray the changing pattern of life within the few square miles which it takes for its field of study. Or it can endeavour to interpret that changing pattern as a symptom of greater changes in the nation as a whole. For, as the sociologists are never weary of reminding us, a town is essentially a social product. It is. brought into being by forces external to it. It continues to exist because, and only so long as, it serves a social purpose. During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the population of London and its immediate suburbs grew much more rapidly than the population of the country as a whole. Confronted by that fact, one of the obvious tasks of the historian is to make clear the purposes which that metropolitan expansion served; to indicate the wider developments of which it was a symptom; and to explain why, to contemporaries, it appeared as a symptom of disease rather than of health in the body politic. For that the growth of London was widely considered to be a morbid growth is incontestable. Topographers and chroniclers might write with admiration and affection of the city whose contours they described and whose history they told
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1954 - 2016 (63) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |