London's Shadows: The Dark Side of the Victorian City
by Drew D. Gray
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In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known, and the largest city in Europe. In the west a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous region outside the symbolic 'walls' of the original City. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, this book show more explores prostitution and pornography, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal show lessTags
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Drew D. Gray is Senior Lecturer in the History of Crime at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the author of Crime, Prosecution and Social Relations (2009) and London's Shadows (2010).
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- London, England, UK
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- Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 364.942109034 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Crime Biography And History Europe England & Wales London
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- HV6950 .L7 .G73 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and criminal classes
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