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The Making of Modern London 1914 1939
Author | : Gavin Weightman,Stephen Humphries |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : London |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105040071115 |
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The Making of Modern London 1815 1914
Author | : Gavin Weightman,Stephen Humphries |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013427680 |
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London Lives
Author | : Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2015-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107025271 |
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This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
London
Author | : John Broich |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822978664 |
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As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society--a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out--in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.
The Making of Modern Britain
Author | : Andrew Marr |
Publsiher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2009-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230747173 |
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In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.
The Making of Modern London
Author | : Weightman,Humph |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0091920051 |
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In this magnificent introduction to the last 200 years of London's momentous history, the authors skillfully combine living memory with diligent historical research to record the city of London from Dickens's time to the present day.
The Making of Modern London 1945 1985
Author | : Gavin Weightman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : OCLC:13741636 |
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Cook s Camden
Author | : Mark Swenarton |
Publsiher | : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1848222041 |
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"The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time and the schemes, which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane, set out a model of housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. The Camden projects represented a new type of urban housing based on a return to streets with front doors. In place of tower blocks, the Camden architects showed how the required densities could be achieved without building high, creating a new kind of urbanism that integrated with, rather than broke from, its cultural and physical context. This book examines how Cook and his team created this new kind of housing, what it comprised, and what lessons it offers for today. New colour photographs combine with original black and white photography to give a fascinating 'then and now' portrayal not just of the buildings but also of the homes within and the people who live there."--Site web de l'éidteur.