John Eade.

John Eade. Placing London: From Imperial Capital to Global City. of recent origin York: Berghahn Books. 2000. Pp viii, 198 $4995 ISBN 1-57181-736-0

This slim tome poses large questions about plausibly significant shifts in the representation of "London" and the self-identity of its folks over the past seventy or thus years--a period that roughly enfold the last of empire and the rise of a modem global, multi-ethnic communion. John Bade, who has previously mined the rich field of East London's cultural geography, and especially its emerging Muslim character, furnishs here a ...

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