Author: Morris, Robert J. & Trainor, Richard H.; editors:
Title: Urban Governance : Britain and Beyond since 1750.
Description: Aldershot [UK], Ashgate Publishers, (2000). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xiv,254 pp, Series: Historical Urban Studies. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: R.J. Morris "Governance: Two Centuries of Urban Growth"; M. Goldsmith & J. Garrard "Urban Governance: Some Reflections"; R.H. Trainor "The 'Decline' of British Urban Governance since 1850: A Reassessment"; R. Millward "Urban Government, Finance & Public Health in Victorian Britain"; I. Maver "The Role & Influence of Glasgow's Municipal Managers, 1890s-1930s"; M. Dagenais "Urban Presence in Montreal & Toronto in a Period of Transition"; A. Day "A Spirit of Improvement, Improvement Commissioners, Boards of Health & Central-Local Relations in Portsea"; C. Williams "Expediency, Authority & Duplicity: Reforming Sheffield's Police, 1832-40"; T. Willis "Politics, Ideology & the Governance of Health Care in Sheffield before the NHS"; G. Massard- Guilbaud "French Local Authorities & the Challenge of Industrial Pollution,c. 1810-1917"; J. Adams "A Paradigm of Inaction? The Politics & Un- politics of Smoke Abatement Legislation in Stockport, 1844-56"; D. Loftus "Industrial Conciliations, Class- Co-operation & the Urban Landscape in Mid- Victorian England"; D.F. Lloyd "The Search for Legitimacy: Universities, Medical Licensing Bodies & Governance in Glasgow & Edinburgh from the late 18th to the late 19th Centuries"; J. Rugg "Ownership of the Place of Burial: A Study of Early 19th-Century Urban Conflict in Britain"; S. Gunn " Ritual & Civic Culture in the English Industiral City: c.1835-1914"; N,. Gupta "The Management of Urban Public Areas: Shahjahanabad, New Delhi; Greater Delhi, 1857-1997".

Keywords: Municipal Government, Great Britain, Urban Governence, Administration, Political History, Politics, , ,