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The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London
Richard Hornsey
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Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 44 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
As London emerged from the devastation of the Second World War, planners and policymakers sought to rebuild the city in ways that would reshape the behavior of its citizens as much as it would its buildings and infrastructure—a program defined by a strong emphasis on civic order and conservative values of national community. One of the groups most significantly affected by this new, moralistic climate of reformation and renewal was queer men, whom the police, the media, and lawmakers targeted as an urgent urban problem by marking their lives and desires as criminal and deviant. In The Spiv and the Architect, ... Read more
As London emerged from the devastation of the Second World War, planners and policymakers sought to rebuild the city in ways that would reshape the behavior of its citizens as much as it would its buildings and infrastructure—a program defined by a strong emphasis on civic order and conservative values of national community. One of the groups most significantly affected by this new, moralistic climate of reformation and renewal was queer men, whom the police, the media, and lawmakers targeted as an urgent urban problem by marking their lives and desires as criminal and deviant. In The Spiv and the Architect, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816653157
SKU
V9780816653157
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About Richard Hornsey
Richard Hornsey is senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
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