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Viking
Language
English
Pages
526

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Cover of: London in the twentieth century
London in the twentieth century: a city and its people
2002, Penguin
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London in the twentieth century: a city and its people
2001, Viking
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: City
I. London Growing: 1900-1950
London 19oo: The Victorian Legacy
Inner London: 1900-1940
Suburban London: 1900-1940
The Blitz and After
2. London Remade: I951-99
The Triumph of the New: 1951-70
Past and Present: 1965-80
Post-industrial London: 1980-99
PART TWO: People
3. Londoners: x900-1947
Londoners and the Nation
Londoners and the World
Getting On Together
4. The Remaking of the Londoner: 1948-99
Multiracial London
Hard Feelings
Live and Let Live
PART THREE: Economy
5. Capital and Labour
Mart and Workshop of the World: 1900-1914
Brave New World: 1914-40
Office World: 1940-65
Great Slump, Green Shoots: 1966-99
6. Richer and Poorer
Always with Us
Public Health, Private Space
The London Factor
PART FOUR: Popular Culture
7. City of Dreadful Night
Mobs, Whizzers, Hoisters and the Bobbed-hair Bandit:
Crime, 1900-1940
Bombs, 'The Black', Chivs and Shooters: Crime, 1940-55
Blaggers, Muggers and Businessmen: Crime, 1955-99
The Blue Lamp: Police and Public, 1900-1958
The Bill: Police and Public, 1958-99
8. The Swinging City
Roaring Crowds: Street Life, 1900-1999
In Town Tonight: Night Life, 1900-1959
From Swinging London to Coolest City in the World:
1960-99
PART FIVE: Politics
9. Governing the Ungovernable
Progressives, Moderates and 'Good Old George':
London Government, 1900-1933
The Morrison Years: London Government, 1934-64
The GLC and After: Greater London Government,
1965-99
Afterword: London in the Twenty-first Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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London, New York

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Library of Congress
DA684 .W517 2001, DA684.W517 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 526 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
526

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Open Library
OL3618859M
Internet Archive
londonintwentiet0000whit_m3m0
ISBN 10
0670891398
LCCN
2002392038
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2564611

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