Slumming

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Slumming is written by Seth Koven and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0691115923 (ISBN 10) and 9780691115924 (ISBN 13).

In this book, Koven paints a portrait of the fashionable Londoners in the 1880s, who crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming.