{"product_id":"black-country-elites-richard-h-trainor-9780198203551","title":"Black Country Elites: The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area 1830-1900","description":"\u003cem\u003eBlack Country Elites\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban elites deployed to cope with urban growth, social unrest, and relative economic decline. Concentrating on a particularly grimy district of the industrial Midlands, the book demonstrates the surprisingly great resources, coherence, sophistication and impact of the area's mainly middle class leaders, who were well linked to regional and national power centers. The strength of this provincial industrial elite suggests the need to reexamine the influential view that Victorian Britain's social development was dominated by London and by land, the professions and finance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard H. Trainor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198203551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198203551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Richard H. Trainor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47001081282815,"sku":"9780198203551","price":77.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf1494da-3c3e-4804-af01-07f785af9dfc.jpg?v=1751600009","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-country-elites-richard-h-trainor-9780198203551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}