Table of Contents

Bristol in the Age of Great Cities Public Health: from crisis to complacency Housing the Workers The Residential Suburbs Industry, Commerce and the Urban Landscape The Railways and the Urban Environment Modernising the Port Urban Improvement, Bristol Fashion The City Through Time Bibliography Index

About the Author

Peter Malpass Is Emeritus Professor Of Housing And Urban Studies At The University Of The West Of England, Bristol.

Reviews

This book is a labour of love [.] a detailed account of how Bristol changed from an essentially medieval trading port built of wood and stone to a modern industrial city built of brick and iron. * BRISTOL TIMES *
What Malpass has achieved in this book as a whole is remarkable. It is very well written and readable [...] The book itself has been beautifully produced by the publishers, Boydell and Brewer, with particularly good quality images. It deserves a wide readership from local and professional historians and every citizen of Bristol with an interest in their city's past and present. * URBAN HISTORY *
[A] fascinating and lively narrative which is an important addition to the relative lack of scholarship on nineteenth-century Bristol. * SOCIAL HISTORY *
Malpass has made a valuable contribution to the literature on Bristol, and its nineteenth-century development in particular. * HISTORY *