Urbanization and the middling sorts in Derbyshire market towns : Ashbourne and Wirksworth 1660-1830
This thesis investigates ways in which towns with populations well below 5000 contributed to England‘s remarkable urbanization in the eighteenth century, developing functions which enabled them to facilitate and benefit from fundamental change. Ashbourne became a minor gentry resort for over half a...
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University of Leicester
2010
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.568158 |