The Blackest Streets: Life And Death Of A Victorian Slum Sarah Wise Vintage Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ An Excellent And Intelligent Investigation Of The Realities Urban Living That Respond To No Design Or Directive This Is A Book About Nature London Itself\ Peter Ackroyd Timesa Powerful Exploration Seedy Side Victorian By One Our Most Promising Young Historians In 1887 Government Inspectors Were Sent Investigate Old Nichol Notorious Slum On Boundary Bethnal Green Parish Where Almost 6 000 Inhabitants Crammed Into Thirty So Streets Rotting Dwellings Mortality Rate Ran At Nearly Twice Rest Among Much Else They Discovered Decaying 100-Year-Old Houses Some Lucrative Properties Capital For Their Absent Slumlords Who Included Peers Realm Local Politicians Churchmen Blackest Set Turbulent Period London\ S History When Revolution Was Air Award-Winning Historian Sarah Wise Skilfully Evokes Texture Life Time Not Just Tenants But Those Campaigning Change Others Seeking Protect Financial Interests She Recovers From Ruins Lays Bare Social Political Conditions Created Sustained Black Hole Which Lay Very Heart Empire Revelatory Prescient Read Cities Class Inequality Message Still Resonates Today Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm