Waterloo Sunrise : : London from the Sixties to Thatcher /

Waterloo Sunrise : : London from the Sixties to Thatcher / / John Davis.

A kaleidoscopic history of a world city over two eventful decadesWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John Davis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Davis, John,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (600 p.) :; 27 color; 56 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 ‘Why London? Why Now?’ The Swinging Moment
  • 2 The Death of the Sixties, Part 1: Soho—Sixties London’s Erogenous Zone
  • 3 The Death of the Sixties, Part 2: The Fall of the House of Biba
  • 4 ‘Now That Londoners Have Discovered the Delights of the Palate’: Eating Out in 1960s and 1970s London
  • 5 ‘Hot Property—It’s Mine!’ The Lure and the Limits of Home Ownership
  • 6 ‘You Only Have to Look at Westway’: The End of the Urban Motorway in London
  • 7 The Conservation Consensus
  • 8 East End Docklands and the Death of Poplarism
  • 9 The London Cabbie and the Rise of Essex Man
  • 10 Protecting the Good Life: London’s Suburbs
  • 11 Containing Racism? The London Experience, 1957–1968
  • 12 Unquiet Grove: The 1976 Notting Hill Carnival Riot
  • 13 Reshaping the Welfare State? Voluntary Action and Community in London, 1960–1975
  • 14 Strains of Labour in the Inner City
  • 15 Selling Swinging London, or Coming to Terms with the Tourist
  • 16 Becoming Postindustrial
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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