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Beyond the Tower : a history of East London / John Marriott.
LIBRA DA685.E1 M33 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marriott, John, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- History.
- East End (London, England)--History.
- East End (London, England).
- London (England)--History.
- London (England).
- Popular culture--England--London--History.
- East End (London, England)--Social conditions.
- London (England)--Social conditions.
- England--London.
- Physical Description:
- x, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- 1 The Parish of Stepney to 1700 7
- 2 Industrialization and the spirit of improvement, 1680-1800 46
- 3 The culture and politics of dissent, 1700-1800 70
- 4 Modernization and its discontents, 1800-1860 94
- 5 The spectre of cholera, 1830-1875 123
- 6 The myth of Outcast London, 1800-1900 150
- 7 From dissent to respectability, 1820-1914 174
- 8 Migrants and sweaters, 1860-1914 211
- 9 The ascent of Labour, 1880-1920 243
- 10 Recession, mass culture and the entrepreneurial spirit, 1920-1939 269
- 11 Fascism and war, 1920-1945 299
- 12 Postwar decline and the rise of the cosmopolis, 1945- 322.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780300148800
- 0300148801
- OCLC:
- 711045588
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