Was there a British Georgian town? A comparison between selected Scottish burghs and English towns
Was there a British Georgian town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4557154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Mckean (0000-0002-1708-2677, University of Dundee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 232 |
| Pages | 253-291 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.12013 |
| OpenAlex | W1942460437 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This article examines the nature of Scottish urban ambition during the Enlightenment period, through assessing the pattern of public building construction in selected burghs against the general historiography of Georgian towns. Using principally Scottish burgh council minutes and contemporary publications, it studies the improvement agenda as the context for civic building, and questions whether it provided a discernible process and chronology for the construction activity. In reviewing the symbolic role of public buildings in particular, the article ponders whether there was indeed a British urban experience toward the end of the first century of parliamentary union. [1] It concludes that both in the historically different Scottish urbanism and the distinctive manner in which Scots burghs responded to improvement, the urban experience north and south of the border was significantly different
Archaeology · Art · Civil engineering · Commonwealth · Economic history · Eleventh · Enlightenment · Georgian · Historiography · Political science · Poor relief · Poverty · Scots · Scottish Enlightenment · Town council · Town planning · Urban history · Urban planning · Urbanism · Engineering · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Public Administration · Scottish History and National Identity
Britons
A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900
Urban Landscapes
Towns, improvement and cultural change in Georgian Scotland
Residential leisure towns in England towards the end of the eighteenth century
Smoke cities’
The English urban renaissance
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Politics of Provincial Culture
Polite Consumption
Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland
Politeness and the Interpretation of the British Eighteenth Century
Small Towns in Early Modern Europe
Whose Nation? Class and National Consciousness in Britain 1750-1830
The Emergence of a Leisure Town
Debate the Emergence of a Leisure Town
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