[PDF] London Lives eBook

Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107025273

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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.

Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107639942

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London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace and direction of social policy. Calling upon a new body of evidence, the book illuminates the lives of prison escapees, expert manipulators of the poor relief system, celebrity highwaymen, lone mothers and vagrants, revealing how they each played the system to the best of their ability in order to survive in their various circumstances of misfortune. In their acts of desperation, the authors argue that the poor and criminal exercised a profound and effective form of agency that changed the system itself, and shaped the evolution of the modern state.

Author : Terence Jenkins
Publisher : Acorn Independent Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1908318406

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Following the sellout success of Another Man's London, Terence Jenkins, London guide and journalist is back with another entertaining collection. London Lives takes you on a tour of some of the capital's secret spots and uncovers its lesserknown stories

Author : Peter Hall
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861349835

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London Voices, London Lives addresses a question of great current importance for urban policy: what kind of a place is London in the 21st century, and how does it differ significantly from other parts of urban Britain? It addresses these questions in a unique way: over one hundred ordinary Londoners provide their answers in their own voices.

Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820339709

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Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others--most often as protagonists--in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 046502503X

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Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London--adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation

Author : Avril Nanton
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 191361820X

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Discover the people, places, and landmarks that have rewritten history! Black London is a complete guide that shines a new and much-needed light on the rich Black history of London’s inhabitants and beyond. From the Nelson Mandela Statue in Parliament Square to the Black Lives Matter mural in Woolwich, this must-have travel guide showcases more than 120 historical sites worth visiting and revisiting.