Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century is a 2011 book by the British academic Leif Jerram.
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| Author | Leif Jerram |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | History of urban Europe |
| Set in | Europe |
| Published | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 477 |
| ISBN | 9780192807076 |
| 940.097320904 | |
Synopsis
editJerram investigates the transformation of Europe from the street level "from riot and revolution to sporting culture and sexual adventure".
Reception
editIn The Independent Christopher Hirst characterized the work as "lively"[1] and in The Financial Times the book was praised as an "enjoyably idiosyncratic and provocative journey".[2] A lengthy review was also published in The Times Literary Supplement where the book was described as an "unromanticised, sweeping and informed cultural history of European cities in the long twentieth century".[3] Diederick Klein Kranenburg in the journal International Review of Social History praised it as "both an important historical study and a real page turner".[4]
References
edit- ^ Hirst, Christopher (9 May 2013). "Streetlife, By Leif Jerram". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Sandbrook, Dominic (7 May 2011). "Contested territory". Financial Times. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
- ^ Rabinbach, Anson (22 August 2011). "The untold story of the city". The Times Literary Supplement. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Kranenburg, Diederick Klein (August 2012). "Leif Jerram. Streetlife. The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century". International Review of Social History. 57 (2): 293–295. doi:10.1017/S0020859012000259. ISSN 0020-8590.
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