London's Shadows. The Dark Side Of The Victorian City

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Continuum Trade
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: Reprint

Description: 280 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 explores prostitution and pornography, poverty, revolutionary politics, immigration, the creation of a criminal underclass and the development of policing. It also considers how the sensationalist new journalism took the news of the Ripper murders to all corners of the Empire and to the United States. This is the dark underbelly of Londons Victorian history.

ISBN: 9781847252425