London in the eighteenth century : a great and monstrous thing /
Author / Creator: | White, Jerry, 1949- |
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Imprint: | London : Bodley Head, 2012. |
Description: | xxi, 682 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8691478 |
Summary: | London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion, of scientific and artistic genius, of blossoming reason, civility, elegance and manners. It was also an age of extremes: of starving poverty and exquisite fashion, of joy and despair, of sentiment and cruelty. Society was fractured by geography, politics, religion and history. And everything was complicated by class. As Daniel Defoe put it, London really was a 'great and monstrous Thing'. |
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Physical Description: | xxi, 682 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-647) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781847921802 1847921809 9781448129539 1448129532 |