Culture in Manchester: Institutions and urban change since 1850

Manchester : city of culture -- Calico connections : science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester -- Counting the coppers : John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens -- Manufacturing the Renaissance : modern merchant princes and the origins of the Manchester Dante Society -- The image of a well-ordered city : nineteenth-century Manchester architecture and the urban spectator -- 'He saw the city and wept' : the Manchester and Salford Methodist Mission 1910-60 -- A case of comsmopolitanism : the Manchester International Club -- Cultue, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester -- Class conflict on the myth of cultural 'inclusion' in modern Manchester.