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Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as specialty destinations: visitors could find spa treatments in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket, and naval services… Celý popis ↓
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Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as specialty destinations: visitors could find spa treatments in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket, and naval services in Portsmouth. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centers such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished.
Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps--made with greater accuracy than ever before--reveal their early development. Containing more than one hundred images of country towns in England, Wales, and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian Library. This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of
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