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Reconsidering the “English Urban Renaissance”: Cities, Culture, and Society after the Great Fire of London - Building the Georgian City. By James Ayres. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 280. $65.00. - The Birth of Modern London: The Development and Design of the City, 1660–1720. By Elizabeth McKellar. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 245. $79.95 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). - Urbane and Rustic England: Cultural Ties and Social Spheres in the Provinces, 1660–1780. By Carl Estabrook. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 317. $60.00. - Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England. By Joseph M. Levine. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii + 279. $45.00. - The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London. By Cynthia Wall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii + 277. $64.95.

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Robert Tittler
Robert Tittler*
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Concordia University, Montreal
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 419 - 430
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2 This is by no means to deny the value of three important books on London society and culture in this era, which, however, do not explicitly take up Borsay's themes: Cruikshank, Dan and Burton, Neil, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990)Google Scholar; Earle, Peter, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660–1730 (London, 1989)Google Scholar, and A City Full of People: Men and Women of London, 1650–1750 (London, 1994)Google Scholar.

3 Figures from Porter, Stephen, The Great Fire of London (Stroud, England, 1996), pp. 71–72Google Scholar.

4 Ibid.; Bell, Walter George, The Great Fire of London in 1666 (London, 1920)Google Scholar; Reddaway, T. F., The Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire (London, 1940)Google Scholar, Summerson, John, Georgian London (1945; reprint, London, 1988)Google Scholar.

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8 See, e.g., Salzman, L. F., Building in England Down to 1540 (Oxford, 1952)Google Scholar; Knoop, Douglas and Jones, G. P., The Mediaeval Mason: An Economic History of English Stone Building in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, 3d ed. (Manchester, 1967)Google Scholar; Brunskill, R. W., Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture (1971; reprint, London, 1978)Google Scholar, and Traditional Buildings of England: An Introduction to Vernacular Architecture (London, 1981)Google Scholar; Clifton-Taylor, Alec, The Pattern of English Building, 2d ed. (London, 1972)Google Scholar.

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12 See nn. 5 and 6.

13 Earle, Peter, The World of Defoe (London, 1977)Google Scholar, and A City Full of People (though, curiously, not his equally germane work, The Making of the English Middle Class); Manley, Literature and Culture; Kostof, Spiro, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History (London, 1991)Google Scholar; Porter, The Great Fire of London.

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16 Craig Muldrew's 1998 monograph on the subject, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Obligation in Early Modern England (Houndsmills, 1998)Google Scholar, will have appeared too late for Estabrook's use, but the same cannot be said for Muldrew, , “Credit, Market Relations and Debt Litigation in Late Seventeenth Century England, with Special Reference to King's Lynn” (Ph.D. diss., Cambridge University, 1990)Google Scholar, or several of the published essays drawn from that thesis. See also Tittler, Robert, “Money Lending in the West Midlands: The Diary of Joyce Jefferies, 1638–1649,” Historical Research 67, no. 164 (1994): 249–63Google Scholar, esp. table 2, p. 257.

17 The fullest discussion of these and related problems is not liana Ben-Amos's, KrausmanAdolescence and Youth in Early Modern England (New Haven, Conn., 1994)Google Scholar; see instead Griffiths, Paul, Youth and Authority: Formative Experiences in England (Oxford, 1996)Google Scholar, which has not been employed here.

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