The Demoralization of London?s Culture
The culture of London degenerated in spite of its economic growth, culminating into a society desensitized with its internal miseries up to the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the Victorian Age. London?s commercial importance predestined its culture to bloom in theatre, clubs, coffeehouses, music, art, and literature, from alluring a mass of population that would enrich its upper classes. However, while capitalism produced great wealth and contributed to London?s rise to world pre-eminence, it also produced social disparities, exploitation, and moral decline. Nineteenth century London saw a birth of modern urban ills produced by the inequalities of capitalism: Prostitution, alcoholism, cri
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