Research Catalog

Title

West Ham and the River Lea : a social and environmental history of London's industrialized marshland, 1839-1914 / Jim Clifford ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Author

Clifford, Jim, 1980-

Publication

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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 led the public to demand new forms of government intervention and provided an opening for 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."--

Series Statement

Nature, history, society

Uniform Title

Nature, history, society.

Subjects

• 1800-1999
• West Ham (London, England) > Environmental conditions > History > 20th century
• West Ham (London, England) > Social conditions > 19th century
• Ecology
• England > London > West Ham
• History
• West Ham (London, England) > Social conditions > 20th century
• Social conditions
• West Ham (London, England) > Environmental conditions > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

The River Lea and industrialization in West Ham -- Population growth -- Living in West Ham -- The labour group and the water question -- Environment and health -- Fixing rivers, fixing society.

Call Number

JFE 17-11067

ISBN

• 9780774834230
• 0774834234

LCCN

2017302358

OCLC

987578671

Author

Clifford, Jim, 1980- author.

Title

West Ham and the River Lea : a social and environmental history of London's industrialized marshland, 1839-1914 / Jim Clifford ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Publisher

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Nature, history, society

Nature, history, society.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Other Form:

Clifford, Jim, 1980- West Ham and the River Lea. Nature, history, society Nature, history, society (CaOONL)20179027492

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11067