Asa Briggs. The Collected Essays.

Contents

Volume I

Words, Numbers, Places, People

Preface

I – WORDS AND NUMBERS

1 – The Language of ‘Class’ in Early Nineteenth-Century England

2 – The Language of ‘Mass’ and ‘Masses’ in Nineteenth-Century England

3 – The Human Aggregate

II – PLACES AND PEOPLE

4 – The Sense of Place

5 – Press and Public in Early Nineteenth-Century Birmingham

6 – Thomas Attwood and the Economic Background of the Birmingham Political Union

7 – The Background of the Parliamentary Reform Movement in Three English Cities, 1830-1832

8 – Social Structure and Politics in Birmingham and Lyons, 1825-184

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Volume II

Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts

Preface

I – POETS AND NOVELISTS

1 – Writers and Cities in the Nineteenth Century

2 – Ebenezer Elliott, The Corn Law Rhymer

3 – Middlemarch and the Doctors

4 – Private and Social Themes in Shirley

5 – Trollope the Traveller

6 – The Appeal of William Morris

II – PROBLEMS AND POLICIES

7 – Public Opinion and Public Health in the Age of Chadwick

8 – Cholera and Society in the Nineteenth Century

9 – The Welfare State in Historical Perspective

III – LOOKING BACKWARDS

10 – Saxons, Normans and Victorians

11 – G.M. Trevelyan: The Uses of Social History

12 – G.M. Young: The Age of a Portrait

13 – Gilberto Freyre and the Study of Social History

IV – LOOKING FORWARDS

14 – Towards 1900: The Nineteenth Century Faces the Future

15 – The Historian and the Future