Waterloo Sunrise (eBook)

London from the Sixties to Thatcher

John Davis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
600 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22058-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London foreverWaterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John Davis paints lively and colorful portraits of life in the British capital, covering topics as varied as the rise and fall of boutique fashion, Soho and the sex trade, eating out in London, cabbies and tourists, gentrification, conservation, suburbia and the welfare state.With vivid and immersive scene-setting, Davis traces how 'swinging London' captured the world's attention in the mid-sixties, discarding postwar austerity as it built a global reputation for youthful confidence and innovative music and fashion. He charts the slow erosion of mid-sixties optimism, showing how a newly prosperous city grappled with problems of deindustrialisation, inner-city blight and racial friction. Davis reveals how London underwent a complex evolution that reflected an underlying tension between majority affluence and minority deprivation. He argues that the London that had taken shape by the time of Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister in 1979 already displayed many of the features that would come to be associated with 'Thatcher's Britain' of the eighties.Monumental in scope, Waterloo Sunrise draws on a wealth of archival evidence to provide an evocative, engrossing account of Britain's ever-evolving capital city.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 27 color + 56 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: activism • Advertising • alarmism • Annual report • authoritarianism • Barbara Hulanicki • Barnsbury • Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency) • Behavior • Bistro • boosterism • Boutique • Brigitte Bardot • Canonbury • Carnaby street • Carnaby Street (radio programme) • car ownership • Central London • Cess • chairman • Charivari • Clothing • Commodity • community development • community leader • community politics • Competition • Conservation area (United Kingdom) • Conservative Party (UK) • correspondent • Council House • councillor • Customer • Debutante • Deckchair • Defence of property • deindustrialization • Designer • Diner • Ebenezer Howard • Economic planning • Employment • Engineering • England and Wales • erogenous zone • Euston Arch • eviction • Feminism (international relations) • figurehead • Gentrification • Greater London • Greater London Council • Great Power • guerrilla warfare • Guys and Dolls • Harrods • Headstone Manor • Hill Street (Los Angeles) • Homelessness • Hostel • hostility • Immigration • income • Indication (medicine) • Individualism • Inner London • Italian Cuisine • Job Security • John Poulson • John Stephen • Journalism • Kings Cross, London • Labour council • La dolce vita • Landlord • Leeds Permanent Building Society • Legislation • local government • London Borough of Harrow • London boroughs • Magnum Photos • Mary Quant • meal • minority group • Niche market • North Sea Oil • Notting Hill • Notting Hill Housing Trust • Paris Match • Patrick Geddes • Permanent revolution • Person • Pickpocketing • Police Officer • political strategy • Politics • Port of London Authority • post-industrial society • Poverty • Predictability • Premarital sex • Prosecutor • Public housing • Public housing in the United Kingdom • public inquiry • Publicity • Racism • real estate economics • Redevelopment • Red Tape • red wine • Renovation • resentment • Residents' association • Restaurant • Retail • Romford • Ronan Point • Royal Town Planning Institute • Savile Row • Security of tenure • shadow Cabinet • shortage • Simon Jenkins • Slum • Social Security System (Philippines) • South London Press • Spaghetti alle vongole • spatial planning • squatting • Standard Telephones and Cables • stockbroker • strip club • Structure plan • student protest • Subsidy • suburb • Suede • Suggestion • Supervisor • Suzy Menkes • Swinging London • Swinging (sexual practice) • Taylor Woodrow • Teddy Boy • Thatcherism • Tourism • tourist attraction • Trafalgar Square • traffic congestion • Trattoria • Trinidadians • Unemployment • Unilever • urban planning • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • White Paper • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22058-1 / 0691220581
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22058-1 / 9780691220581