Encyclopedia Of London S East End

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476683997

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Encyclopedia of London's East End by Kevin A. Morrison Pdf

The East End is an iconic area of London, from the transient street art of Banksy and Pablo Delgado to the exhibitions of Doreen Fletcher and Gilbert and George. Located east of the Tower of London and north of the River Thames, it has experienced a number of developmental stages in its four-hundred-year history. Originating as a series of scattered villages, the area has been home to Europe's worst slums and served as an affluent nodal point of the British Empire. Through its evolution, the East End has been the birthplace of radical political and social movements and the social center for a variety of diasporic communities. This reference work, with its alphabetically organized cross-referenced entries and its original and historical photography, serves as a comprehensive guide to the social and cultural history of this global hub.

Author : Alan Palmer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571275370

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East End by Alan Palmer Pdf

The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague. Alan Palmer's historical overview of the area (first published in 1989 and revised in 2000) takes its extent to be the traditional limits of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Hoxton and Shoreditch, the docklands and their overflow into West Ham and East Ham. And at the heart of the East End lies Spitalfields, home to a transient, often radical and hard-working population. Though it is often seen as London's centre of industry and poverty, in comparison to the well-to-do West End, the East End has always been a diverse place: in the seventeenth century, Hackney was a pleasant country retreat; Stepney and the docklands a bustling world of sailors and merchants. The book traces the development of the area from these roots, through the nineteenth century - when the East End became notorious as the home of radicals, exiled revolutionaries and the very poor, its crowded streets the scene of murder, riot and cholera -to the bombing of the first and second world war; and the subsequent decline and regeneration of the twentieth century.

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438108704

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Encyclopedia of British Writers by Christine L. Krueger Pdf

This concise encyclopedic reference profiles more than 800 British poets

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4064 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : 9780195395365

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture by Colum Hourihane Pdf

This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.

Author : William J. Fishman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0907123856

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East End 1888 by William J. Fishman Pdf

'East End 1888' reveals genuine Victorian values - poverty, crime, disease and the workhouse, softened by the clubs, pubs and communal life that made life possible for the working poor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X002078243

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The Popular Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles ANNANDALE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100029361

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The popular Encyclopedia by Charles ANNANDALE Pdf

Author : Dee Gordon
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750995788

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The Little History of the East End by Dee Gordon Pdf

The modern history of London's East End has been well-documented – but what of its ancient roots? From embryonic beginnings in the Stone Age, through Roman rule and civil wars, all the way to its jam-packed twentieth-century timeline, the East End has always been a place of innovation, diversity and change. Written by an East Ender with a love of her roots, The Little History of the East End is an engaging look at the area's history through the people that made it, one that will enthral and surprise both residents and visitors alike.

Author : Melvin Ember,Carol R. Ember
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015060390997

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Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures by Melvin Ember,Carol R. Ember Pdf

Presents articles on over 240 major cities around the world including demographic information, history, politics, public systems, culture, social life and future outlook.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 2146 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781593394929

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Pdf

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia is the perfect resource for information on the people, places, and events of yesterday and today. Students, teachers, and librarians can find fast facts combined with the quality and accuracy that have made Britannica the brand to trust. A tool for both the classroom and the library, no other desk reference can compare.

Author : Nicholas Freeman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191527319

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Conceiving the City by Nicholas Freeman Pdf

Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art. Breaking away from the language and style of Dickens and the static panorama paintings of William Powell Frith, major figures such as Henry James and J. M. Whistler, and, crucially, less-celebrated authors such as Arthur Machen, Edwin Pugh, and George Egerton bent realism into exciting new shapes. In the naturalism of George Gissing and Arthur Morrison, the fragmentary impressions of Ford Madox Ford, and the brooding mystery of Alvin Langdon Coburn's photogravures, London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art. Although many of these insights would be dismissed or at least downplayed by subsequent generations, the ideas evolved during the period from 1870 to 1914 anticipate not only the work of high modernists such as Eliot and Woolf, but also that of later urban theorists such as Foucault and de Certeau, and the novels and travelogues of contemporary London writers Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair. Nicholas Freeman recovers a sense of late-Victorian London as a subject for dynamic theoretical and aesthetic experiments, and shows, in stimulating analyses of Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Arthur Symons, and others how much of our understanding of urban space we owe to eminent (and not so eminent) Victorian figures. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book restores a much-needed historical perspective to our engagement with the metropolis.

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781593394912

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Encyclopedia of World Religions by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Pdf

A guide to the religions of the world and to the concepts, movements, people, and events that have shaped them. It includes features such as: entries on religious movements and concepts, historical and legendary figures, divinities, religious sites and ceremonies; images that show sacred places, vestments, rituals, objects, and texts; and more.

Author : Colin Holmes,Anne J Kershen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317301141

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An East End Legacy by Colin Holmes,Anne J Kershen Pdf

An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital. A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman’s work to present a wide range of insights into the historical characters and events of the East End. The book’s themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics, the volume examines in great depth the social, political, religious and cultural changes that have taken place in the area over the past 120 years, many of which remain both significant and relevant. In addition, it illustrates East London’s links with other parts of the world including Europe and America and those territories "beyond the oceans." This book will prove valuable reading for researchers and readers interested in Victorian and twentieth century British history, politics and culture.

Author : Italo Pardo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521566657

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Managing Existence in Naples by Italo Pardo Pdf

Italo Pardo has produced a thoughtful and original account of the moral life of Naples, a city in which the ethics of work, family and neighbourhood exist in complex relationship with the teachings of the church and, crucial to key processes of democracy, with the power and limitations of law, bureaucracy and government. Dr Pardo identifies the importance of strong continuous interaction between material and non-material aspects in the entrepreneurial strategies of the ordinary Neapolitan and shows the ways in which different ethical systems are negotiated in everyday life. Success is measured not only by material gain, but also by satisfying spiritual obligations and meeting the claims of intimate loyalties. This is one of the very few ethnographic studies of a European city; it questions old assumptions and raises fresh issues in the field of urban studies, demonstrating the significance of empirical analysis to mainstream debates in social theory.