Placing London : from Imperial capital to Global city / John Eade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eade, John, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

London (England)--Social conditions.

London (England).

London (England)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2000]

Summary:

London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this metropolis. The central question - what is London? - has produced many answers but none of them, the author argues, uncovers the complex ways in which knowledge is constructed in the diverse attempts to represent places and people. On the contrary: a gulf has opened up between analysis of contemporary London as a global, postcolonial city, on the one hand, and historical accounts of the imperial capital on the other. The author shows how the gap can be bridged by combining an analysis of the representation over time by various experts of London and certain localities with an investigation of the ways in which residents have represented their communities through struggles over symbolic and material resources.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Table of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

PART ONE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. REPRESENTING LONDON DURING EMPIRE: THE INTER-WAR GUIDES

3. REPRESENTING THE GLOBAL CITY: CONTEMPORARY TOURIST GUIDES

PART TWO

4. THE WEST END AND SOHO: ALIEN SETTLEMENTS AMID COLONIES OF PLEASURE AND POWER

5. LOCAL REPRESENTATIONS OF DIFFERENCE IN THE WEST END’S ‘FOREIGN QUARTER’

PART THREE

6. THE CITY OF LONDON: FROM EMPIRE TO GLOBE

7. THE CITY OF LONDON: PLACE AND PLACELESSNESS

PART FOUR

8. THE EAST END: THE TRANSFORMATION OF PLACE

9. THE EAST END: GUIDING TOURISTS THROUGH A FOREIGN LAND

10. REPRESENTING LOCALITY IN THE EAST END: PEOPLE AND PLACE IN THE GLOBAL CITY

PART FIVE

11. CONCLUSION

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57181-803-0

OCLC:

654242829