Main entry:

Crinson, Mark, author.

Title & Author:

Shock city : image and architecture in industrial Manchester / Mark Crinson.

Publication:

London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022.
New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2022.
©2022

Description:

ix, 234 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction: Shock, smoke and charity -- Ancoats, 1826: the shock of the factory -- City of free trade: the urbanism of the industrial Bourgeoisie -- Ancient and modern: photography imaging an Epoch -- Industrial greatness: the town hall as a Gothic machine -- Devil's darkness: industrial pollution and culture as philanthropy -- The largest room: making a deal witht the architecture of the exchange -- Coda.

Summary:

From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manchester's global significance and the beginning of its decline, Shock City challenges the idea that Paris was the "capital of the nineteenth century." Mark Crinson reorients this issue around the development of industrial production, particularly cotton and its manufacture by means of steam power, offering a fascinating and accessibly written account of how new relations in the industrial economy were manifested through the spaces and representations of the first industrial city.0Focusing on Manchester's mills and warehouses, its main trading institution (the Royal Exchange), its magnificent Gothic Revival Town Hall, and its late Gothic Revival Rylands Library, this book explores these iconic buildings alongside paintings, prints, maps, and photographs of the city throughout the period. Crinson interweaves analysis of buildings and images, urban spaces and new institutions, technology and industrial pollution to show how these were all the products of Manchester's newly emergent industrial middle classes, who remade the city in their image.

ISBN:

9781913107338 hardcover
1913107337 hardcover

Subject:

Industries England Manchester History 18th century.
Industries England Manchester History 19th century.
Industries England Manchester History Pictorial works.
Architecture, Industrial England Manchester History.
Industrial buildings England Manchester History 18th century Pictorial works.
Industrial buildings England Manchester History 19th century Pictorial works.
Industrie Angleterre Manchester Histoire 18e siècle.
Industrie Angleterre Manchester Histoire 19e siècle.
Industrie Angleterre Manchester Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture industrielle Angleterre Manchester Histoire.
Constructions industrielles Angleterre Manchester Histoire 18e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Constructions industrielles Angleterre Manchester Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
Architecture, Industrial
Buildings
Economic history
Industrial buildings
Industries
Manchester (England) Economic conditions 18th century.
Manchester (England) Economic conditions 19th century.
Manchester (England) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
England Manchester

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316597
Call No.: 316597
Copy: 1
Status: Available