The Great Army Sketches Of Life And Character In A Thames Side District
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The Great Army of London Poor
Author | : Thomas Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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The Great Army of London Poor
Author | : Thomas Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 1888* |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
The Great Army of London Poor. Sketches of Life and Character in a Thames-side District
Author | : Riverside Visitor (pseud. [i.e. Thomas Wright.]) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Why Bother with History?
Author | : Beverley C. Southgate |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2013-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317875265 |
.Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians, the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint, from which a story of the past can be told, that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. Inevitably controversial, in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history, this is an interdisciplinary book, which draws in particular on psychology and literature.
Outcast London
Author | : Gareth Stedman Jones |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781680124 |
At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades. This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state. At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.