Main entry:

Marriott, John, 1944-

Title & Author:

Beyond the Tower : a history of East London / John Marriott.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.

Description:

x, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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, 1920-1945 -- Postwar decline and the rise of the cosmopolis, 1945- -- Epilogue: The promise of regeneration?

Summary:

The East End of London, 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. This is a history of this area.

ISBN:

9780300148800 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300148801 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300187755 (pbk.)
0300187750 (pbk.)

Subject:

Popular culture England London History.
Culture populaire Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Popular culture History. England London.
Popular culture.
Social conditions.
Sozialer Wandel
Massenkultur
Populärkultur historia Storbritannien London.
East End (London, England) History.
London (England) History.
East End (London, England) Social conditions.
London (England) Social conditions.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire.
England London.
England London East End.
East End

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275680
Call No.: BIB 210007
Status: Available