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Author Marriott, John, 1944-

Title Beyond the Tower : a history of East London / John Marriott
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011

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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
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
Subject Popular culture -- England -- London -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Popular culture
Social conditions
SUBJECT East End (London, England) -- History
London (England) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078205
East End (London, England) -- Social conditions
London (England) -- Social conditions
Subject England -- London
England -- London -- East End
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300177497
0300177496