Presents the latest research from both Britain and Ireland on two of the most important and exciting cities in early modern Europe. These essays offer the first comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Capital cities of their respective islands and leading ports, London and Dublin shared many social, economic and other developments. By the eighteenth century they had become leading centres of the Enlightenment. Yet the contrasts were also striking — with the pervasive power of religion in the Irish city. Moreover, London was the imperial metropolis, and Dublin remained for all its efforts a colonial capital. The contributors, all leading urban historians, examine the physical growth of the cities, economic and social trends, governance and cultural significance. Throughout there is an awareness of the interaction between London and Dubin and their national societies. This volume is a major contribution not only to urban studies but also to British and Irish history in general. Readership: Scholars and students of urban history, and of early modern British and Irish history.
The volume is edited by Peter Clark, Professor of European Urban History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Raymond Gillespie, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
The papers arise from a joint symposium of the British Academy and the Royal Irish Academy, held in Dublin in April 1998.
| CONTENTS - Peter Clark & Raymond Gillespie, Introduction
- Derek Keene, Growth, Modernisation and Control: The Transformation of London’s Landscape, c.1500–c.1760
- Colm Lennon, The Changing Face of Dublin, 1550–1750
- Joanna Innes, Managing the Metropolis: London’s Social Problems and their Control, c.1660–1830
- Neal Garnham, Police and Public Order in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
- Leonard Schwarz, Hanoverian London: The Making of a Service Town
- David Dickson, Death of a Capital? Dublin and the Consequences of Union
- Ian W Archer, Government in Early Modern London: The Challenge of the Suburbs
- J R Hill, The Shaping of Dublin Government in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Peter Borsay, London, 1660–1800: A Distinctive Culture?
- T C Barnard, ‘Grand Metropolis’ or ‘The Anus of the World’? The Cultural Life of Eighteenth-Century Dublin
- Viviane Barrie, The Church of England in London in the Eighteenth Century
- Raymond Gillespie, Religion and Urban Society: The Case of Early Modern Dublin
- Peter Clark, The Multi-Centred Metropolis: The Social and Cultural Landscapes of London, 1600–1840
- Edel Sheridan-Quantz, The Multi-Centred Metropolis: The Social Topography of Eighteenth-Century Dublin
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