West Ham and the River Lea West Ham and the River Lea
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West Ham and the River Lea

A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914

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Publisher Description

During the nineteenth century, London’s population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs in shops and factories. In West Ham and the River Lea, Jim Clifford explores the growth of London’s most populous independent suburb and the degradation of its second largest river, bringing to light the consequences of these developments on social democracy and urban politics in Greater London.

Drawing on Ordnance Surveys and archival materials, Jim Clifford uses historical geographic information systems to map the migration of Greater London’s industry into West Ham’s marshlands and reveals the consequences for the working-class people who lived among the factories. He argues that an unstable and unhealthy environment fuelled protest and political transformation. Poverty, pollution, water shortages, infectious disease, floods, and an unemployment crisis provided an opening for a new urban politics to emerge.

By exploring the intersection of pollution, poverty, and instability, Clifford establishes the importance of the urban environment in the development of social democracy in Greater London at the turn of the twentieth century.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2017
August 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
244
Pages
PUBLISHER
UBC Press
SELLER
eBOUND Canada
SIZE
10.6
MB
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