{"product_id":"cultures-of-london-9781350242029","title":"Cultures of London","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many hu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis pathbreaking and extensive volume brings together a wide range of authors from academia and beyond to investigate the role and lives of migrants throughout the history and geographical extent of London. * Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrontmatter Author Biographies Introduction, Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson  \u003cb\u003eCENTRAL\u003c\/b\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eSt. Erkenwald\u003c\/i\u003e and the Hidden Histories of St Paul’s Cathedral, Alastair Bennett 2. Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer, Markman Ellis 3. The ‘Black-birds’ of St. Giles: Community and Place in Eighteenth-century London, Nicole N. Aljoe and Savita Maharaj 4. Styling the Other: Hazlitt’s ‘The Indian Jugglers’, Uttara Natarajan 5. Begging Places: Poverty, Race, and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815, David Hitchcock 6. 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818–76, Oskar Cox Jensen 7. The Chinese Aesthetics of the \u003ci\u003eAdmonitions Scroll\u003c\/i\u003e at the British Museum, Kent Su 8. ‘A terrain on its own’: Elizabeth Bowen and Regent’s Park, Heather Ingman  \u003cb\u003eINFRASTRUCTURE: WATER\u003c\/b\u003e 9. London’s Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons, Susan J. Wiseman  \u003cb\u003eEAST\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Daniel Swift 11. Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell, Eliza Cubitt 12. 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity, Dan Cruikshank 13. The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde, Alex Grafen  \u003cb\u003eINFRASTRUCTURE: WASTE\u003c\/b\u003e 14. Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew’s \u003ci\u003eLondon Labour and the London Poor\u003c\/i\u003e, Naomi Hinds  \u003cb\u003eSOUTH\u003c\/b\u003e 15. Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from ‘Tradescant’s Ark’ to Vauxhall Gardens, Charlotte Grant 16. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg, Catherine Brown 17. 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent Van Gogh, Livia Wang 18. Writing London: Hanif Kureishi’s \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha of Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e, Ruvani Ranasinha  \u003cb\u003eINFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT I\u003c\/b\u003e 19. Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s–70s, Rob Waters  \u003cb\u003eWEST\u003c\/b\u003e 20. Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in 1700, Alistair Robinson 21. Feathered People in Enlightenment London: Queen of the Bluestockings meets Cherokee King, Elizabeth Eger 22. Prince Eugen in Kensington: Anglo-Scandinavian Artistic, Networks and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Eva-Charlotta Mebius 23. ‘What a relief to be back in London’: The Silences of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Edmund de Waal 24. Tricksters of the Water: Sam Selvon's West London and the Migrant Experience, Peter Maber and Karishma Patel 25. Arabian Nights on the Edgware Road: Hanan al-Shaykh’s \u003ci\u003eOnly in London\u003c\/i\u003e, Susie Thomas 26. The Grand Prince of Kyiv in Holland Park: The Statue of Saint Volodymyr, Sasha Dovzhyk 27. ‘Is real mas outside’: Community, Resistance and Notting Hill Carnival, Leighan Renaud 28. ‘Where the City Dissolves’: Suburban Diasporas, Psychosis and Reparative Writing, Martin Dines  \u003cb\u003eINFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT II\u003c\/b\u003e 29. A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe Kerr  \u003cb\u003eNORTH\u003c\/b\u003e 30. Moorgate, Enfield, Edmonton and Hampstead: The Cross-City Migrations of John Keats, Flora Lisica 31. The Battle for an African Space in London: WASU Hostel and Aggrey House, William Whitworth 32. Northview: A Snapshot of Multiracial London during the Second World War, Oliver Ayers 33. Exiles of NW3: The ‘Free German League of Culture’ in Upper Park Road, David Anderson  Select Bibliography Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019643748695,"sku":"9781350242029","price":61.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350242029.jpg?v=1750780885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultures-of-london-9781350242029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}