The Devil’S Highway. Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London’s Sailortown, C.1850-1900, Hardback

Branded the Devil’s Highway, nineteenth century Ratcliffe Highway was associated with crime and vice. In contrast, this book argues that sailortown was a distinctive and functional community. This community fostered an urban-maritime culture that shaped a sense of themselves and the conventions that governed subaltern behaviour in the district. -- .

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Author(s): Brad Beaven
• Illustration(s): 2 Maps
• Number of pages: 214
• Collection: Studies in Popular Culture
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 19
• Cover type: Hardback