London a Social History

London  a Social History
Author: Roy Porter
Publsiher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674538390

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An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.

London

London
Author: R. O. Bucholz,Robert O. Bucholz,Joseph P. Ward
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2012-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521896528

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This book is a history of London from 1550 and 1750, the period of its rise to world-wide prominence. Incorporating recent work in urban history, accounts by contemporary Londoners and tourists, and fictional works featuring the city, it examines how London came to dominate the economic, political, social and cultural life of the British Isles as never before nor since.

London

London
Author: Roy Porter
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2000-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780140105933

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Roy Porter not only charts the physical changes to London - the endless building expansion - but the whole life of the city. The occupations, the crime, the epidemics and the recreational pastimes are all featured here.

Londinopolis C 1500 C 1750

Londinopolis  C 1500   C 1750
Author: Mark S.R. Jenner,Paul Griffiths
Publsiher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0719051525

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Events such as the Fire of London and the Plague, and historic locations like the Globe Theatre, are part of London's heritage. Yet until recently, the history of the city between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. During this period, London's population soared from around 50,000 to nearly half a million--the demographic explosion transformed the city to a metropolis. London became a center of new social and sexual identities and a solvent of older, more hierarchical forms of social organization. The essays in this volume cover the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption. Within these themes are thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, “great quantities of gooseberry pye,” and the taxing question of fresh water.

London

London
Author: Roy Porter
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2000-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780141939278

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'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ... a timely and brilliant book.' CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A People s History of London

A People s History of London
Author: Lindsey German,John Rees
Publsiher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781844678556

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In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background. Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground for radical ideas, home to thinkers, heretics and rebels from John Wycliffe to Karl Marx. It has been the site of sometimes violent clashes that changed the course of history: the Levellers’ doomed struggle for liberty in the aftermath of the Civil War; the silk weavers, match girls and dockers who crusaded for workers’ rights; and the Battle of Cable Street, where East Enders took on Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts. A People’s History of London journeys to a city of pamphleteers, agitators, exiles and revolutionaries, where millions of people have struggled in obscurity to secure a better future.

London

London
Author: R. O. Bucholz,Joseph Ward
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 1139518453

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"Our contemplation of London must begin, as London began, at the river. The River Thames is a slow moving and rather murky body of water, flowing west to east, about a quarter to an eighth of a mile wide as it passes through the city. To this day, the sinewy thread of the Thames is London's most notable topographical feature, the curving line around which the metropolis orientates itself. As we have seen, this was not by chance. The Romans founded London in imitation of their own great capital city so that London, like Rome, sits on its river at exactly the spot where it narrows enough to bridge (see Map 1). That confluence of west-east river and south-north bridge made London both a military choke-point and an economic funnel long before our arrival sometime in 1550"--

A History of London

A History of London
Author: Stephen Inwood
Publsiher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 1136
Release: 2000
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 0333671546

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Presents a comprehensive history of London - the incredibly unique and complicated city - from the fires and plundering of latterday Londinium to the frenetic art, music and politics of London.