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Author / Creator:Glinert, Ed
Imprint:London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2005.
Description:x, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5711632
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ISBN:0713997745 (cased)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A vast shocking city
  • 2. Building the new Jerusalem
  • 3. Docks, dockers and river pirates
  • 4. The silk weavers of Spitalfields
  • 5. Ratcliff Highway : murder and mayhem
  • 6. Mystics and myth-makers
  • 7. The mysteries of the Orient
  • 8. The Jewish ghetto
  • 9. In darkest London and the way out
  • 10. Riot and revolution
  • 11. The unlucky Isle of Dogs
  • 12. Blitz and bombs
  • 13. Dark ages
  • 14. Rebirth?