Machine generated contents note: 1.The Parish of Stepney to 1700 -- 2.Industrialization and the spirit of improvement, 1680--1800 -- 3.The culture and politics of dissent, 1700--1800 -- 4.Modernization and its discontents, 1800--1860 -- 5.The spectre of cholera, 1830--1875 -- 6.The myth of Outcast London, 1800--1900 -- 7.From dissent to respectability, 1820--1914 -- 8.Migrants and sweaters, 1860--1914 -- 9.The ascent of Labour, 1880--1920 -- 10.Recession, mass culture and the entrepreneurial spirit, 1920--1939 -- 11.Fascism and war, 1920--1945 -- 12.Postwar decline and the rise of the cosmopolis, 1945--.
