Beyond the Tower : a history of East London / John Marriott.
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 ma...
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- 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�1945Postwar Decline and the Rise of the Cosmopolis, 1945�
- Epilogue: The Promise of Regeneration?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.