Passport To Peckham

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 191338005X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passport to Peckham written by Robert Hewison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living. “Is there life in Peckham?” asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London—social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham’s streets and presents the portrait of a community experiencing the stresses of modern living. Old and new residents rub against each other as they try to adjust to the challenges created by urban regeneration and the more subtle process of gentrification. Artists have lived and worked in Peckham for more than a century, and now Caribbean and West African communities are adding their own flavors in terms of music, drama, poetry, and film. Focused on a few square miles, Passport to Peckham raises issues of urban policy, planning, culture, and creativity that have a far wider application. As London and other major cities recover from the COVID crisis, are there lessons in urban living to be learned from the pleasures and pains of Peckham? The answer from one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics is an emphatic yes.

Author : Jane Doulman
Publisher : Federation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862876873
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Assistance & Protection written by Jane Doulman and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Assistance and Protection is the first book presenting an in-depth history of the Australian passport. In charting the development of the passport from its early beginnings to its present form, the book traverses changes in government policy and social history from the early 19th century to the modern era. It shows how the Australian passport evolved from a signifier of British nationality into a badge of membership of one of the most multicultural countries in the world. The book explores the landmark events in this history:the great 19th century diasporas, resulting from relaxation of official controls on the movement of people; the early passport regime regulating the movement of "ticket-of-leave" convicts; the establishment of the centralised passport system during World War I; the enactment of the first passport legislation for the Commonwealth, The Passports Act 1920, and the reaction of some Australians who felt the new law infringed the liberties of the British subject; changes to the laws in 1938 such that possession of a passport was no longer mandatory for an Australian to travel, though still a practical necessity; the use of the government's discretionary power to cancel or withhold passports to inhibit the movement of individual communists; the establishment of Australian citizenship in 1948 - the basis for possession of an Australian passport; the removal of the word "British" from the cover in 1967; the effects of globalisation and heightened security in the late 20th and early 21st century. It also touches on the lives of individuals: boxer Les Darcy, journalist Wilfred Burchett, and General Sir Thomas Blamey, are among the many Australians featuring in these pages. The book is based on an exhaustive examination of hitherto unexamined primary sources of many government departments, including the Departments of External Affairs, the Prime Minister's, the Attorney-General's, Defence, Home and Territories, Immigration and Foreign Affairs. Sponsored by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Author : Margaret Truman
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079534502X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Smithsonian written by Margaret Truman and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a mystery replete with “nonstop action and a brilliantly evocative setting,” a noted historian is murdered at the National Museum of Art (Booklist). Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. Taking the case, DC police Cpt. Mac Hanrahan begins to uncover a web of secrets, lies, and revenge surrounding the historian’s killing. From the deceased Tunney’s strong-willed fiancée, Heather McBean, to the congressmen with secrets to hide, Hanrahan finds himself unsure who to believe. Soon after, two more murders add to the intrigue. Murder in the Smithsonian is the fourth volume in Margaret Truman’s beloved Capital Crimes series, in which Truman enlivens history with her first-hand knowledge as the daughter of US President Harry S. Truman. Each of the novels revolve around Washington, DC, and its landmarks. The Smithsonian’s museums, with their quirky staff, forensic scientists, and sometimes-spooky exhibits are the perfect setting for a thrilling political crime novel. “Truman’s novels of Washington will continue to entertain both mystery and Washington buffs.” —The Washington Post

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide to American Law Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments Act of 1992 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Supreme Court
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
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Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suffolk Institute of Archaeology
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology written by Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute written by Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History written by Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry Irving
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742230938
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Sydney written by Terry Irving and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city's rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action. Through a series of snapshots, Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.