London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City

Gray, Drew D.

ISBN 10: 1847252427 / ISBN 13: 9781847252425

Edité par Hambledon Continuum, 2010

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Synopsis :

This is a compelling account of the hidden world of Victorian London. In 1888, London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city, the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book explores prostitution and pornography, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist 'new journalism' took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is the dark underbelly of London's Victorian history.

À propos de l?auteur: Dr Drew D. Gray is a lecturer at the University of Northampton. His research centres on the social history of London in the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is his first book.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the ...
Éditeur : Hambledon Continuum
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Very Good