{"product_id":"town-city-and-nation","title":"Town, City and Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the outbreak of the First World War England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 per cent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in English urban society had taken place.  This book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of those developments - conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities, and seaside resorts. The\n\u003cbr\u003eauthor assesses the importance of London, the provincial cities, and manufacturing centres; he also examines the continuing influence of the small country town and `rural' England on political,\n\u003cbr\u003eeconomic, and cultural growth. In many respects, P. J. Waller's book is a general social history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England, seen from an urban perspective. It is both scholarly and immensely readable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156690137326,"sku":"9780192891631","price":163.21,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780192891631.jpg?v=1706254203","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/town-city-and-nation","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}