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Black Country Elites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban elites deployed to cope with urban growth, social unrest, and relative economic decline.
Concentrating on a particularly grimy district of the industrial Midlands, the book demonstrates the surprisingly great resources, coherence, sophistication, and impact of the area's mainly middle-class leaders, who were well linked to regional and national power centres.
Richard H. Trainor's extensively researched and richly documented analysis suggests the need to re-examine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by land, the professions, and finance. Instead he indicates the complex give-and-take between the metropolis and its notables, on the one hand, and the industrial provinces and their leaders, on the other.
The book is both a substantial addition to regional studies of Victorian Britain, and an important contribution to the history of nineteenth-century elites and of the urban middle class.
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Elite (Social sciences), History, Industrialists, Social conditions, Black country (england), Great britain, social conditions, Geschichte (1830-1900), Industrialisierung, Sociaal-economisch beleid, Sozialgeschichte 1830-1900, Ondernemers, Politik, Lokaal bestuur, Verwaltung, Elite, Elites, General & miscellaneous business biography, European studies - englandPlaces
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Black Country élites: the exercise of authority in an industrialized area, 1830-1900
1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
0198203551 9780198203551
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-425) and index.
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