Description |
1 online resource (x, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: O Thomas Cook -- The Parish of Stepney to 1700 -- Industrialization and the Spirit of Improvement, 1680�1800 -- The Culture and Politics of Dissent, 1700�1800 -- Modernization and its Discontents, 1800�1860 -- The Spectre of Cholera, 1830�1875 -- The Myth of Outcast London, 1800�1900 -- From Dissent to Respectability, 1820�1914 -- Migrants and Sweaters, 1860�1914 -- The Ascent of Labour, 1880�1920 -- Recession, Mass Culture and the Entrepreneurial Spirit, 1920�1939 |
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Fascism and War, 1920�1945Postwar Decline and the Rise of the Cosmopolis, 1945� -- Epilogue: The Promise of Regeneration? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Summary |
From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first theater and to the early stirrings of a mass labor movement; it has also traditionally been seen as a place of darkness and despair, where Jack the Ripper committed his gruesome murders, and cholera and poverty stalked the Victorian streets. In this beautifully illustrated history of this iconic district, John Marriott draws on twenty-five years of research into the subject to present an authoritative and endlessly fascinating account. With the aid of copious maps, archive prints and photographs, and the words of East Londoners from seventeenth-century silk weavers to Cockneys during the Blitz, he explores the relationship between the East End and the rest of London, and challenges many of the myths that surround the area |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Popular culture -- England -- London -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Popular culture
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
East End (London, England) -- History
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London (England) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078205
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East End (London, England) -- Social conditions
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London (England) -- Social conditions
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England -- London
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England -- London -- East End
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780300177497 |
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0300177496 |
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