The Experience of Suburban Modernity: How Private Transport Changed Interwar London 0719089190, 9780719089190

The Experience of Suburban Modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, co

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The Experience of Suburban Modernity: How Private Transport Changed Interwar London
0719089190, 9780719089190

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