Cruel Habitations: History of Working Class Housing, 1780-1918 - Tapa dura

CRUEL HABITATIONS - A HISTORY OF WORKING-CLASS HOUSING 1780-1918

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Orlando Booksellers
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket illustration shows The Vault, Dundee, c. 1890, courtesy Dundee Public Libraries. ***Black and white plates and text illustrations throughout, with table of Statutes on Housing to front. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with silver titles to spine. Top edge of text-block stained brown (as called for). Tiny black pen mark and tiny dent to bottom edge of text-block. Owner's name to top of front free endpaper. Spine tight. In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, price-clipped but with new publisher's price of £6.50. Short closed tear to bottom edge of front wrapper near spine. Short closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel of dustwrapper near spine. Edges very slightly rubbed. ***363 pages including appendixes, references and index to rear. 224 mm x 144 mm. ***'The book deals with the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies; and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform. ***The author decided to write this book after a detailed study of nineteenth-century housing in her home town of Dundee had shown the need for a general history of housing against which local findings could be assessed. Her knowledge has been complemented by her husband's experience of housing problems gained from his architectural practice and from his service on the Housing Advisory Committee of the Scottish Development department. ***'The first comprehensive history of the housing of the working class in Britain, this study will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Social History, Social Administration, Social Medicine, Public Health, Town Planning, Architecture and Liberal Studies. Mrs Gauldie worked until 1970 in the Department of Modern History, University of Dundee, and has been since then Visiting Lecturer in The School of Architecture, Dundee.' (Quote from inside front jacket blurb). ***Uncommon, scholarly social history first edition in nice, collectable condition, with most of the few copies of this title that are available being ex-library. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2387

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