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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period : Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period Authentic FirstPerson Accounts by Beggars Thieves and Prostitutes
Author: Henry Mayhew
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in nineteenth-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew and his collaborators explored hundreds of miles of London streets in the 1840s and 1850s, gathering thousands of pages of testimony from...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486440064
ISBN-10: 0486440060
Publication Date: 7/25/2005
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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