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Clark, Peter and Raymond Gillespie, eds. Proceedings of the British Academy, volume 107. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 311. Black and white illustrations, maps, tables, index. $140.00
This volume, the product in part of a conference held in Dublin in 1998, brings together fourteen eminent historians of London and Dublin and presents us with essays that are both informative and useful. They blend an analysis of the state of scholarship to date with original research and empirical findings. They are well illustrated with plentiful maps and drawings. Each of them is constructed and argued in workmanlike fashion and each is a sound and intelligent piece of work. In addition there is an introduction by the two editors, which sets out the ambitions and gives an overview of the scope of this study.
The essays, bunched in sets, are constructed around seven themes: the urban landscape, the welfare and police of the two cities, their demography and employment patterns, the governance of urban and suburban areas, their cultural...