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1999
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Book Review
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Those ‘who like their theory neat and tidy’, Ogborn suggests, will feel that the attempt to write about modernity has been hamstrung by attention to specifics.”
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History
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http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk
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English
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103-392-467
(Last edited on
2003/07/25 10:31:47 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
Miles Ogborn aligns himself with Kathleen Wilson and other historians who wish to see a greater focus on the complexity of a period of time and also a methodology which does not reduce that study to a tale of progress, stability or decline. His book is both about eighteenth-century London and about how writing contextual historical geographies can change the way we theorise modernity. He provides a series of specific and detailed readings of changes that reshaped London at this period, offering analyses of such processes as individualisation, the formation of ‘the public sphere’ and transformations of time and space through improved communications.
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