Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s
Londres, London, East End, histoire urbaine, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, dix-huitième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé, Gatrell Vic, imaginaire
<div>This paper was part of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009">Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'</a>.</div>
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<b>Conference description by the organisers :</b></div>
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The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life.</div>
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<b>Paper abstract from the organisers : </b></div>
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This paper looks at East London life before Victorian observers 'invented', 'ideologically constructed', 'mythicised', or 'problematised' the 'East End' (as the fashionable phrases nowadays go). It sets aside the Victorian judgements and anxieties through which many historians still filter their views of East London and, without denying its deprivations, it speculates how best we might treat its 'low life' in its own and more positive terms.<br />
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Recalling Dr Johnson's advice to Boswell in 1783 to go with curious eye and philosophic mind to Wapping the better to measure London's 'wonderful extent and variety', the paper focuses on the century after 1750 or so, to wonder what it was that outsiders were responding to when they described East Enders as 'happy', and allowed them their own exuberant vitality.</div>
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<b>Vic Gatrell </b>is a retired Professor of History at the University of Cambridge.</div>
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NB : This recording may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes.</div>
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See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Ideas of the metropolis</a></div>
What is a city? The English experience</a></div>
Cities and peripheries</a></div>
Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990</a></div>
Multicultural London: Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion</a></div>
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Vic Gatrell
2 July 2009
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/anglo-american-conference/id440518170
Crime and punishment in Istanbul 1700 - 1800
Istanbul, crime, délinquance, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, gouvernance, eighteenth century, 18th century, dix-huitième siècle, 18e siècle, Zarinebaf Fariba
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years, considering transgressions such as riots, prostitution, theft, and murder and at the same time tracing how the state controlled and punished its unruly population. Taking us through the city's streets, workshops, and houses, she gives voice to ordinary people—the man accused of stealing, the woman accused of prostitution, and the vagabond expelled from the city. She finds that Istanbul in this period remains mischaracterized—in part by the sensational and exotic accounts of European travelers who portrayed it as the embodiment of Ottoman decline, rife with decadence, sin, and disease. Linking the history of crime and punishment to the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in the eighteenth century, Zarinebaf finds in fact that Istanbul had much more in common with other emerging modern cities in Europe, and even in America.</div>
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<b>Fariba Zarinebaf</b> is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Riverside.</div>
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Fariba Zarinebaf
University of California Press
January 2011
304
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The making of the English middle class: Business, society and family life in London, 1660-1730
, classe moyenne, bourgeoisie, économie, emploi, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, famille, family, London, Londres, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, dix-septième siècle, dix-huitième siècle, Earle Peter
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Peter Earle
University of California Press
1989
447
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Hanoverian London 1714 - 1808
, histoire urbaine, mouvement social, société urbaine, croissance urbaine, urbanité, Hanoverian, eighteenth century, dix-huitième siècle, London, Londres, Rudé George
<b>Abstract from the publisher :</b></div>
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Hanoverian London, 1714 - 1808, the first of eight volumes to be published in The University of California Press <i>History of London </i>series, surveys the life of the town throughout the eighteenth century. Professor Rudé outlines the main themes in the development of the metropolis, and deals with every aspect of the life of the greatest capital in Europe : the physical growth of the town both as capital and as residential area; economic life and communications; social classes, social life, and the arts; the small traders, craftsmen, wage-earners and the poor; religion and the churches; government and administration, and the functions and authority of a bewildering medley of controlling and contending bodies; the rôle of London in the political and economic life of the nation; the machinery of political manipulation; the almost continuous opposition to Court and government; the outbreaks of social protest 'from below'; trade unions, strikes, industrial riots and 'the mob'; the emergence of Radicalism and the phenomenon of Wilkes; the changing pattern of London during the French Wars and on the brink of the nineteenth century.</div>
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Professor Rudé's achievement, however, does not lie so much in his treatment of isolated topics as in his integrated account of the dynamics of London's growth as both city and metropolis.</div>
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In this synoptic view of the available sources, combined with original research on rents and rates, 'the mob', popular Radicalism and social protest, Professor Rudé maps out the shape and temper of the unique city over a century of growth. His book will form the keystone of a major task of synthesis, and will in itself stand as a landmark in the study of urban history.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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The growth of the metropolis</div>
Economic life</div>
Men of property</div>
Social life, the arts and entertainment</div>
The 'other' London</div>
Religion and the churches</div>
The government of London</div>
The politics of London</div>
London radicalism</div>
Social protest 'from below'</div>
The political riot</div>
London and the French Wars</div>
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The late <b>George Rudé </b>was a historian and Professor Emeritus at Concordia University Montreal.</div>
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George Rudé
University of California Press
1971
271
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http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520017788