Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (Signed)

Walkowitz, Judith

ISBN 10: 0300151942 / ISBN 13: 9780300151947

Published by Yale University Press, 2012

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[Inscribed, signed by author: Judith Walkowitz to Gabrielle Spiegel on title page] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.*. Seller Inventory # 2204190087

Bibliographic Details

Title: Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (...

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

London’s Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation.

Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.

About the Author:

Judith Walkowitz is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and the author of City of Dreadful Delight. She lives in New York.