{"product_id":"cultures-of-london-9781350242012","title":"Cultures of London","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London’s history and culture has been shaped by migration. \u003cem\u003eCultures of London\u003c\/em\u003e expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital’s cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters, and curators.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSubjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances, and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul’s, while others explore less well-known subjects, such as the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer, and man-of-letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is not only London’s cultures which are diverse; migration is also plural. \u003cem\u003eCultures of London\u003c\/em\u003e engages with the very many human migrations from across the globe and within the British Isles that have taken place over the last two-thousand years, as well as with the movements of plants, animals, and ideologies from other countries and continents, and the movement of natural resources and manmade toxins into and through the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComposed of a vivid collection of snapshots, the volume offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the city and provides new insights into the successive migrant communities that have come to London and made it their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596076073196,"sku":"9781350242012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350242012-cultures-of-london.jpg?v=1777915696","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/cultures-of-london-9781350242012","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}