Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Athenaeum
None
The Athenæum
None
Life in West London
Excerpt from Life in West London: A Study and a Contrast The district as a whole is characterized by conditions which, if they do not defy, at least baffle accurate description. Here, for example, are all the ordinary facts of social life in crowded centres - insanitary dwellings, irregular employ ment, sweated wages, and chronic physical weakness, imten sified by higher rents and a relatively higher cost Of liv ing; and, what is worse still, aggravated by the close prox imity of those awful contrasts - the extremes Of wealth and poverty, which are the special and peculiar miseries of the West End. In the east and south of London life has its deep and extended miseries, but this is not one ...
West London
None
The Great Exhibition of 1851
"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
The Jurist ..
None
