Martin Daunton.

Martin Daunton, ed The Cambridge Urban History of Britain. contortion Ill 1840--1950. New York: Cambridge University Pres 2000 Pp xxvi, 944 $14000 ISBN 0-521-41707-4

In late decades, in a process accelerated and distorted by way of Britain's demented Research Assessment Exercises, several mountain ranges of research have been generated in social and urban history, as elsewhere. Financial and career rewards for publishing original work are extensive, and there are multiplying herds of novel periodicals waiting to carry the originates into oblivion. Prizes for review, summary, or equal ...

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