London's Underworld by Henry Mayhew, Peter Quennell

London's Underworld

Henry Mayhew, Peter Quennell

427 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative slow-paced
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The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, ...

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