London : a history /
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| Author / Creator: | Sheppard, F. H. W. (Francis Henry Wollaston), 1921- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. |
| Description: | xv, 442 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4244677 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Londinium:
- 1. Urban origins
- 2. early Londinium
- 3. change and decay
- Part II. From Londinium to the Chartered City of London, c.400-c.1530:
- 4. Londinium and Lundenwic c.400-c.886
- 5. from Lundenburg to the birth of a municipal commune c.866-1215
- 6. the emergence of the medieval capital c.1216-c.1530
- Part III. The Genesis of Modern London 1530-1700:
- 7. The rise of the metropolis
- 8. religious and educational revolution
- 9. political revolutions
- 10. the processes of growth
- 11. the administration of the metropolis
- 12. death and life in London
- Part IV. Augustan and Georgian London 1700-1830:
- 13. The growth and structure of London
- 14. London and the genesis of the industrial economy
- 15. religion, education and leisure
- 16. metropolitan politics and metropolitan class
- Part V. Metropolitan and Imperial London 1830-1914:
- 17. structures of the modern metropolis
- 18. the people of London
- 19. the imperial and global metropolis
- Part VI. The Uncertain Metropolis 1914-1997:
- 20. the inter-war years 1914-1939
- World War II 1939-1945
- disruptions, 1945-1997
- valediction
- Appendix 1 Estimates of the Population of London 1550-1801
- Appendix 2 The Population of London and the South East Region 1801-1991
- Notes, Bibliography, Index
