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Examines how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the twentieth century, focusing on two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham.

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Studies the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.