The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / / Richard Hornsey
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| Autore: |
Hornsey Richard Quentin Donald
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| Titolo: |
The spiv and the architect : unruly life in postwar London / / Richard Hornsey
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.4/90942109045 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality - England - London - History - 20th century |
| Reconstruction (1939-1951) - England - London | |
| Urban policy - England - London - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | London (England) Social conditions 20th century |
| London (England) Social life and customs 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: social modernism and male homosexuality in postwar London -- Reconstructing everyday life in the atomic age -- The perversity of the zigzag: the criminality of queer urban desire -- Trial by photobooth: the public face of the homosexual citizen -- Of public libraries and paperbacks: the sexual geographies of reading -- Life in the cybernetic bedsit: interior design and the homosexual self -- Conclusion: city of any dream. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Explores how London's queer culture was influenced by postwar efforts to create model citizens |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The spiv and the architect |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4613-2 |
| 0-8166-7343-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813574903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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