Nights out : life in cosmopolitan London
Walkowitz, Judith R.2012
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Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness, liminality, and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the 20th century.
Main title:
Nights out : life in cosmopolitan London / Judith R. Walkowitz.
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Imprint:
New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2012.
Collation:
xiv, 414 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300151947 (hbk)0300151942 (hbk)
Dewey class:
942.1'32
Language:
English
Subject:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Travel -- England -- LondonCosmopolitanism -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryNightlife -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryCity and town life -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryCultural pluralism -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryPopular culture -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryPolitical culture -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centurySocial change -- England -- London -- History -- 20th centuryHistorySoho (London, England) -- History -- 20th centuryLondon (England) -- History -- 20th century
BRN:
923746
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