Main entry:

Mayne, Alan, 1955-

Title & Author:

The imagined slum : newspaper representation in three cities, 1870-1914 / Alan Mayne.

Publication:

Leicester ; New York : Leicester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. modern city -- 3. Drama: eradicating plague from San Francisco, 1900-1909 -- 4. Indeterminacy: the Birmingham improvement scheme, 1875-1914 -- 5. Contingency: municipal slum clearance in Sydney, 1879-1900 -- 6. Showcase -- 7. Threshold -- 8. Slumland -- 9. Faces of degeneration -- 10. just war.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP30.00 0.

ISBN:

0718513894
9780718513894
071852134X
9780718521349

Subject:

Slums Case studies.
Slums California San Francisco.
Press California San Francisco.
Slums England Birmingham.
Press England Birmingham.
Slums Australia Sydney (N.S.W.)
Press Australia Sydney (N.S.W.)
Journalism.
Poverty Areas history.
Newspapers.
Presse Californie San Francisco.
Presse Angleterre Birmingham.
Presse Australie Sydney (N.-G. du S.)
Journalisme.
journalism.
Press
Slums
Beeldvorming.
Nieuwsbladen.
Krottenwijken.
Urban renewal Case studies.
Urban renewal California San Francisco.
Urban renewal England Birmingham.
Urban renewal Australia Sydney (N.S.W.)
Birmingham (Warwickshire)
Warwickshire Birmingham.
California San Francisco
England Birmingham
New South Wales Sydney
Slum communities
Social conditions Reporting By Newspapers History

Form/genre:

Case studies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200771
Call No.: HV4028 .M3 1993
Status: Available