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Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern London written by Gavin Weightman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230747175
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Broich
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822978660
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book London written by John Broich and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern London, 1914-1939 written by Gavin Weightman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern London, 1815-1914 written by Gavin Weightman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025273
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book London Lives written by Tim Hitchcock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Arianne Chernock
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804772932
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism written by Arianne Chernock and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and the Making of Modern British Feminism calls fresh attention to the forgotten but foundational contributions of men to the creation of modern British feminism. Focusing on the revolutionary 1790s, the book introduces several dozen male reformers who insisted that women's emancipation would be key to the establishment of a truly just and rational society. These men proposed educational reforms, assisted women writers into print, and used their training in religion, medicine, history, and the law to challenge common assumptions about women's legal and political entitlements. This book uses men's engagement with women's rights as a platform to reconsider understandings of gender in eighteenth-century Britain, the meaning and legacy of feminism, and feminism's relationship more generally to traditions of radical reform and enlightenment.
Author : Lukas Novotny
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 071123972X
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Modern London written by Lukas Novotny and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the art deco factories of the 1920s through to the skyscraper boom of the twenty-first century, Modern London takes you on an illustrated tour of the capital’s ever-changing landscape. Shaped variously by war, economics, population growth and design trends, the city has been moulded by some of the greatest modern architects and to this day remains a centre of building design and experimentation. Through intricate graphic illustrations and accessible entertaining text, London’s streets, structures and transport systems of the last century are brought to life. Discover long lost treasures such as the Firestone Factory and marvel at modern–day masterpieces like the London Aquatics centre; delight in previously vilified social housing projects such as the Balfron Tower, and discover the drama behind bold, eccentric designs like the ‘Cheesegrater’. The city’s skyline can change in an instant; Modern London invites you to sit back and survey the scene so far.
Author : Christopher Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134873840
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920 written by Christopher Lawrence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. * first short synoptic study of its kind * breaks new ground by bringing together specialised scholarship into a broad argument * shows how the medical profession created a very specific role for itself * relates medicine to general social policy
Author : Leo Hollis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779727
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book London Rising written by Leo Hollis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the middle of the seventeenth century, London was on the verge of collapse. Its ancient infrastructure could no longer support its explosive growth; the English Civil War had torn society apart; and in 1665 the capital was struck by a plague that claimed 100,000 lives. And then, the following year, the Great Fire destroyed huge swaths of the city. As Leo Hollis recounts in his stirring history of the period, modern London was born out of this crucible. Among the catalysts for this rebirth were five extraordinary men, each deeply influenced by the Civil War, whose intersecting lives form the heart of London Rising: famed philosopher John Locke, whose ideas about the individual would outline a new theory of civil society based on natural rights; diarist John Evelyn, who insightfully chronicled the tumult and transformation before him; the polymathic scientist and architect Robert Hooke; developer Nicholas Barbon, who rebuilt much of the city after the fire; and Christoper Wren, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time, whose reconstruction of St. Paul's Cathedral was the essential symbol of London's rebirth. The city today is in great part the result of the myriad advances in literature, planning, science, and social issues forged by these five. Hollis paints a vibrant portrait of one of the world's greatest cities, and of a generation of men whose impact on London is unmatched.
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.
Author : Harold James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835015
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Making a Modern Central Bank written by Harold James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy and the modernization of British institutions in the late twentieth century.
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429931019
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
Author : Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113465782X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book 1956 and All That written by Dan Rebellato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama.
Author : Richard White
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393342379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Railroaded written by Richard White and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book Review The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating economic panics. Their dependence on public largesse drew them into the corridors of power, initiating new forms of corruption. Their operations rearranged space and time, remade the landscape of the West, and opened new ways of life and work. Their discriminatory rates sparked a new antimonopoly politics. The transcontinentals were pivotal actors in the making of modern America, but the triumphal myths of the golden spike, Robber Barons larger than life, and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age, often darkly funny, that shows history to be rooted in failure as well as success.
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876687
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Woman written by Lynn Abrams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
Author : Mark Swenarton
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848222045
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Cook's Camden written by Mark Swenarton and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
