Böcker av Simon Gunn

This text introduces the relationship between contemporary cultural theory and the study of history. It relates the ideas of prominent theorists to periods of history and demonstrates the insights of cultural theory in their own work. The book is written primarily for students of history but it will be valuable to students in English, anthropology and cultural studies who also encounter questions of culture, history and theory.

Studies the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.

Useful for students and researchers.