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.

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: Francis Sheppard
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2000
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 0192853694

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London has for most of 2000 years been the hub of the political, economic, and cultural life of the British Isles. No other city has held such a dominant national position for so long. This new study, by the doyen of London historians, describes London's diverse past, from its origins as aRoman settlement at the first bridging of the Thames to the world-class metropolis it is today. It provides a vivid account of a city which was the 'deere sweete' place which Chaucer loved more than any other city on earth, which was for Dickens his 'magic lantern', and to Keats 'a great sea',howling for more wrecks. It is also a story of much contrast and remarkable resilience; through great fires and pestilence, civil war, and the Blitz, London has rebuilt and reinvented itself for each generation.

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.

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"--

Public House

Public House
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2021-09-04
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1916016928

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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 Its People

London   Its People
Author: John Richardson
Publsiher: Random House (UK)
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1995
Genre: London
ISBN: UOM:39015041543334

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Provides information on the history and social conditions of London.