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| Author | : R. O. Bucholz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
| ISBN | : 9781139518451 |
"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"--
| Author | : Roy Porter |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674538399 |
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.
| Author | : Tim Hitchcock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2015-12-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107025273 |
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
| Author | : Mark S.R. Jenner |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780719051524 |
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.
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| Release | : 2021-09-04 |
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| ISBN | : 9781916016927 |
| Author | : WARNER |
| Publisher | : Jacaranda |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2022-10-27 |
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| ISBN | : 9781913090265 |
A collection of guided tours throughout London Black History Walks invites the reader to see their surroundings with new eyes.
| Author | : Joseph Bullman |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
| ISBN | : 1849904502 |
"In a modern version of a classic survey from the 19th century, where Charles Booth [(1840-1916)] spent 17 years exploring the social and economic conditions of every street in Victorian London, this ... book tells the story of six London streets and the people who lived there. The selection represents the wifdest possible picture of the city both socially and geographically; from Deptford High Street, Camberwell Grove and Reverdy Road in the south, to Caledonian Road in the north, Portland Road in the west and Arnold Circus in the east. Each has a fascinating history of its own, from the rich being pushed out by the super-rich in Notting Hill to the first public housing scheme being launched at Arnold Circus. Together, however, their stories reveal the big underlying forces that have shaped London for thye last 130 years: gentrification, migration, slum clearances, property speculation, and the rural being subsumed by a growing metropolis. ..."--Jacket.
| Author | : Francois Bedarida |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136097325 |
In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single European market. Making full use of the Annales school of French historiography, Bédarida takes his inquiry beyond conventional views to penetrate the attitudes, behaviour and psychology of the British people.
| Author | : F. M. L. Thompson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 612 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521438162 |
Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the advance has occurred through such an outpouring of research and writing that it is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of recent monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three complementary perspectives: those of regional communities, of the working and living environment, and of social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.
| Author | : Keith Wrightson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 435 |
| Release | : 2017-02-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108210201 |
The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This volume serves two main purposes. Firstly, it summarises, in an accessible way, the principal findings of forty years of research on English society in this period, providing a comprehensive overview of social and cultural change in an era vital to the development of English social identities. Second, the chapters, by leading experts, also stimulate fresh thinking by not only taking stock of current knowledge but also extending it, identifying problems, proposing fresh interpretations and pointing to unexplored possibilities. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and general readers.
