Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Chalklin, C. W., 1933- author

Title The provincial towns of Georgian England : a study of the building process, 1740-1820 / C.W. Chalklin
Published Montreal [Québec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxii, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, charts, maps, plans
Series Studies in urban history ; 3
Studies in urban history ; 3.
Contents The growth of urban society 1700-1820 -- The building land promoter -- The builder -- The course of urban building -- Appendices -- The urban population in 1801 -- Population growth of market towns and seaports in predominantly agricultural areas -- Some eighteenth-century title deeds -- Aspects of building costs, c. 1780-1820 -- Mortgage capital -- Houses, families and population in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Sources for figures 1-6 -- A note on sources -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-352) and index
Subject Cities and towns -- England -- History
Housing -- England -- History
Land subdivision -- England -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Cities and towns
Housing
Land subdivision
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773594470
0773594477