London's West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 634
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198823414
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- "London's West End" is not only the first-ever history of the area, but also identifies the nature of pleasure districts as an under-explored issue in urban history. It is 369 pages long and represents ten years of research (the bibliography runs to 32 pages), charting long-term patterns of change (1800-1914). The book brings together extensive archival research covering theatres, hotels, restaurants, street life, the sex industry and popular music (showing their inter-relationships in new ways). The book argues the West End was a laboratory of mass culture but links this to the analysis of space, emotion and formations of pleasure.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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