Joyce M Ellis.

Joyce M Ellis. The Georgian Town, 1680-1840 (Social History in Perspective.) of recent origin York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp. viii, 182 $6500 ISBN 0-333-71134-3

In view of the extensive coverage of eighteenth-century urban history in tome two of the recent Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2000) over and above another publication on the eighteenth hundred years town may seem somewhat otiose. However, Ellis's history has a number of advantages athwart its weightier competitor. Not no other than is it considerably shorter and frequently cheaper (which will automatically endear it to the bookish man and general readership for

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