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Author Mayne, Alan, 1955-

Title The imagined slum : newspaper representation in three cities, 1870-1914 / Alan Mayne
Published Leicester ; New York : Leicester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1993

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Description ix, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. modern city -- 3. Drama: eradicating plague from San Francisco, 1900-1909 -- 4. Indeterminacy: the Birmingham improvement scheme, 1875-1914 -- 5. Contingency: municipal slum clearance in Sydney, 1879-1900 -- 6. Showcase -- 7. Threshold -- 8. Slumland -- 9. Faces of degeneration -- 10. just war
Analysis Slum communities
Social conditions Reporting By Newspapers History
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [210]-221
Subject American newspapers -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Australian newspapers -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History.
Australian newspapers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
English newspapers -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History.
English newspapers -- England -- Birmingham -- History.
Press -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
Press -- Australia -- Sydney
Press -- California -- San Francisco.
Press -- England -- Birmingham.
Press -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
Slums -- Case studies.
Slums -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
Slums -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History.
Slums -- Australia -- Sydney
Slums -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Slums -- California -- San Francisco.
Slums -- England -- Birmingham -- History.
Slums -- England -- Birmingham.
Slums -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
Slums -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
Slums -- United States -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
Journalism.
Poverty Areas -- history
Genre/Form Periodical.
LC no. 93020477
ISBN 0718513894
071852134X