Beyond the Tower : a history of East London /

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Author / Creator:	Marriott, John, 1944-
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Popular culture -- England -- London -- History. Popular culture. Social conditions East End (London, England) -- History. London (England) -- History. East End (London, England) -- Social conditions. London (England) -- Social conditions. England -- London. England -- London -- East End. Electronic book. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11300758

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ISBN:	9780300177497 0300177496 9780300148800 0300148801
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Marriott, John, 1944- Beyond the Tower. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300148800

Table of Contents:

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: O Thomas Cook
The Parish of Stepney to 1700
Industrialization and the Spirit of Improvement, 1680â€?1800
The Culture and Politics of Dissent, 1700â€?1800
Modernization and its Discontents, 1800â€?1860
The Spectre of Cholera, 1830â€?1875
The Myth of Outcast London, 1800â€?1900
From Dissent to Respectability, 1820â€?1914
Migrants and Sweaters, 1860â€?1914
The Ascent of Labour, 1880â€?1920
Recession, Mass Culture and the Entrepreneurial Spirit, 1920â€?1939
Fascism and War, 1920â€?1945Postwar Decline and the Rise of the Cosmopolis, 1945â€?
Epilogue: The Promise of Regeneration?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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