Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London

by Judith R. Walkowitz

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300151942
• ISBN13: 9780300151947
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"