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Book SynopsisBrings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city’s cultural evolution
Trade ReviewCulture in Manchester comprises nine essays which provide much evidence for the view that Manchester has not been, and is not culturally in decline. . .Most of the chapters are readable and avoid the impenetrable jargon of many essays in cultural studies. -- .
Table of Contents1. Manchester: city of culture – Mike Savage and Janet Wolff
2. Calico connections: science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester – Janet Wolff
3. Counting the coppers: John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens – Michael Powell and Terry Wyke
4. Manufacturing the Renaissance: modern merchant princes and the Manchester Dante Society – Stephen J. Milner
5. The image of a well-ordered city: nineteenth-century Manchester theatre architecture and the urban spectator – Viv Gardner
6. ‘He saw the city and wept’: the Manchester and Salford Methodist mission 1910–60 – Angela Connolly
7. A case of cosmopolitanism: the Manchester International Club – Bill Williams
8. Culture, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester – Andrew Miles
9. Class conflict and the myth of cultural ‘inclusion’ in modern Manchester – Selina Todd
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