Waterloo Sunrise : London from the Sixties to Thatcher /

"This is an urban history of London during the pivotal years of the 1960s and 1970s, when the metropolis was transformed from an industrial city that the Victorians might have recognised to an embryonic modern 'world city.' Previous work on London in these years has tended to focus up...

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Autor principal: Davis, John, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Social change.
Nineteen sixties.
Nineteen seventies.
Manners and customs.
Annees soixante-dix (Vingtieme siecle)
Annees soixante (Vingtieme siecle)
Social change > England > London > History > 20th century.
England > London.
Londres (Angleterre) > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Londres (Angleterre) > Histoire > 1951-
London (England) > Social conditions > 20th century.
London (England) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
London (England) > History > 1951-
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Why London? Why now?': The swinging moment
  • The death of the Sixties (1). Soho
  • Sixties London's erogenous zone
  • The death of the Sixties (2): The fall of the House of Biba
  • 'Now that Londoners have discovered the delights of the palate': eating out in Sixties and Seventies London
  • 'Hot property
  • it's mine!' The lure and the limits of home ownership
  • 'You only have to look at Westway.' The end of the urban motorway in London
  • The conservation consensus
  • East End Docklands and the death of Poplarism
  • The London cabbie and the rise of Essex man
  • Protecting the good life. London's suburbs
  • Containing racism? The London experience, 1957-1968
  • Unquiet grove. The 1976 Notting Hill carnival riot
  • Reshaping the welfare state? Voluntary action and community in London, 1960-1975
  • Strains of labour in the inner city
  • Selling swinging London, or coming to terms with the tourist
  • Becoming post-Industrial
  • Bibliography.

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