London Narratives: Post-War Fiction and the CityBloomsbury Academic, 25.11.2006 - 192 Seiten The post-war redevelopment of London has been the most extensive in its history, and has been accompanied by a dramatic social and cultural upheaval. |
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... centuries . At the beginning of the nineteenth century the city had fewer than one million inhabitants . By the 1880s the population had risen to 5 million , and by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 , 7.5 million . In 1800 the ...
... century was an exciting contrast . People south of the river were indifferent . They still had the warmth and naivety of provincials . The men of Islington were metropolitan , tough and seasoned , in contrast to their environment of ...
... century to the end of the sixteenth century , while the interjections in section five are all twentieth - century manifestations . All the other sections have three or four interjections and relate to varying lengths of chronological ...
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Rewriting London | 1 |
The Centre Cannot Hold | 35 |
Love in a Cold Climate | 56 |
Urheberrecht | |
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