Author: William Gilbert (Novelist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The City an Inquiry Into the Corporation, Its Livery Companies and the Administration of Their Charities and Endowments
Author: William Gilbert (Novelist.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Bibliography of Municipal Problems and City Conditions
Author: Robert Clarkson BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
Author: David Edward OwenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674358850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
A Bibliography of the World's Municipal Literature
Author: Robert Clarkson BrooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Municipal Affairs
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Devoted to the consideration of city problems from the steadpoint of the taxpayer and citizen.
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: The Westminster review [afterw.] The London and Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster review [afterw.] The Westminster and foreign quarterly review [afterw.] The Westminster review [ed. by sir J. Bowring and other].
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Author: sir John BowringThe Westminster Review
Author: Library Catalogue
Author: Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and WalesPublisher:
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
The East India Company's London Workers
Author: Margaret MakepeacePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835851
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Positions the English East India Company at the center of the early 19th century London economy. Analyzes the composition of the warehouse workforce and explores laborers' work experiences through case histories.