Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History by Dyos, H.J - 1982

Cambridge - New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Book. Good. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0-521-28848-7, Much sunning to the covers, minor bump/ crease to the rear cover bottom edge; previous owner's inscription to the first endpaper; very little wear overall. Text is clean. 'During the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past was one of the most prominent developments in historical studies in the United Kingdom. . . . This book brings together some of [the author's] most important and influential essays, written over nearly thirty years. . . . At one level, this book may be read as a fitting memorial to the work, influence and writings of a first-rate historian; at another, it furnishes an indispensable guide to the study of urban development and the nineteenth-century city and to the perspective which that study affords on the urban present.' 258 pages..