“The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood”: The Tooley Street Fire
This article considers representations of a fire that broke out at Cotton’s Wharf in Tooley Street, London, in 1861 as a case study that reveals a debate about the status of Britain as a global power. Such discussions were fuelled by the three influences of extractive imperial capitalism, a financia...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2022-04-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-22/the-tooley-street-fire |