Author: John Stow
Publisher:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author:
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: John Stow
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533321718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Ford's evocation of the growth of London, of the bewildering variety of the city scene by day and night, of the glamour and frivolity of its 'high' life and the hardship of its working people is a work of imaginative literature, not a guide book. Other writers had explored the 'facts' of London, but for Ford impressions take the place of information and argument. Part history, part personal reminiscence, and part prose poem which renders 'the moods of many individuals' in relation to the urban landscape, The Soul of London reads at times like fiction where the scene is set for characters who never appear. But it is also a journey of discovery into the nature of modern city life and our ways of coming to terms with it.

Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500022290
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This insightful, evocative, and sumptuous volume brings Charles Booth's landmark survey of late nineteenth-century London to a new audience.

Author: Frances Manwaring Caulkins
Publisher:
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Category : New London (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Ralph Treswell
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Flora Tristan
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Francis Sheppard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192853691
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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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.

Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674538399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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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.