01033nam0 22002891i 450 UON0006980320231205102346.27300-917517-1-320020107d1991 |0itac50 baengGB|||| |||||Republic of fearSaddam's IraqSamir al-khalilNew EditionLondonHutchinson Radius1991310 p.20 cmIRAQPolitica e governoUONC018800FIGBLondonUONL003044320.9567POLITICA E GOVERNO DELL'IRAQ21ˆal-‰KHALILSamirUONV043853312060Hutchinson RadiusUONV257003650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00069803SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI IRQ Afr V 005 SI AA 14522 5 005 Republic of fear1160870UNIOR03117nam 22004933 450 991072506540332120231110234325.01-912685-97-3(CKB)4900000001450313(MiAaPQ)EBC6915695(Au-PeEL)EBL6915695(OCoLC)1305844611(NjHacI)994900000001450313(EXLCZ)99490000000145031320220411d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWorld's End1st ed.Cambridge :Goldsmiths, University London,2022.©2022.1 online resource (166 pages)Spatial Politics 1-913380-00-9 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 World's End -- 2 The Angel Standing in the Sun -- 3 The Sun Shone on the Nothing New -- 4 After the Rain -- 5 The London Pale -- 6 Slouching Towards Bethlehem -- 7 Them -- 8 Culture and Anarchy in the UK -- 9 Learning to Love the Bomb -- 10 The Drowned World -- Bibliography.Charlie Gere's account of growing up in the World's End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the King's Road, the World's End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett, Bacon, and Bacon's muse Henrietta Moraes, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After World War II, in which the area suffered severe bombing, it became a center of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called ?Bomb Culture,? formed by the threat of nuclear annihilation.0The famous boutique Granny Takes a Trip opened there in 1966, joined later on by Hung On You, Puss Weber's Flying Dragon Tea Room, and the commune Gandalf's Garden. The area also featured trepanning aristocrats and pet lions, among other eccentricities. In the 1970s, the World's End was the center of punk rock. Gere's parents arrived as part of a wave of gentrification, and Gere, born and brought up there, witnessed its social and cultural evolution. As an adolescent, he was traumatized by the prospect of nuclear war. He has lived long enough to see the World's End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality. But this too shall pass as worlds end.Spatial Politics Manners and customsfast(OCoLC)fst01007815Worlds End (London, England)History20th centuryWorlds End (London, England)Social life and customsHistory.fastManners and customs.942.1340485092Gere Charlie1359824MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910725065403321World's End3374941UNINA