London in the eighteenth century : a great and monstrous thing /
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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Introduction: London 1700-1708
- Part 1. City
- I. James Gibbs's London, 1708-54
- The Architect Most in Vogue: James Gibbs
- 'A Kind of Monster': Growing London, 1720-54
- Obstructions and Inconveniences: Changing London, 1700-54
- II. Robert Adam's London, 1754-99
- 'A Kind of Revolution': Robert Adam
- 'We Have Done Great Things': Improving London, 1754-99
- The Mad Spirit of Building: London Growing, 1754-99
- An Epitome of a Great Nation': London, 1799
- Part 2. People
- III. Samuel Johnson's London - Britons
- 'London is Their North-Star': Provincial Londoners
- 'Men Very Fit for Business': North Britons
- 'Within the Sound of Bow Bell': Cockneys and Citizens
- 'A Very Neat First FloorÆ: Living and Dying
- æTake or Give the Wall': Getting on Together
- IV. Ignatius Sancho's London - Citizens of the World
- 'Our Unfortunate Colour': Black Londoners
- 'Foreign Varlets': Europeans and Some Others
- 'Offscourings of Humanity': Jewish Londoners
- 'Get Up, You Irish Papist Bitch': Irish Londoners
- Part 3. Work
- V. William Beckford's London - Commerce
- 'That Which Makes London to be London': Trade
- 'Most Infamous Sett of Gamblers': Money Matters
- 'They Swim into the Shops by Shoals': Retail
- 'Clean Your Honour's Shoes': Streets
- VI. Francis Place's London - Industry and Labour
- 'Minute Movement and Miraculous Weight': Made in London
- Fellowship Porters, Lumpers and Snuffle-Hunters: Moving Things Around
- High Life Below Stairs: Domestic Service
- 'At the Eve of a Civil War': Masters and Men
- VII. Eliza Haywood's London - Print, Pictures and the Professions
- 'Purse-Proud Title-Page Mongers': The Business of Words
- 'Overburdened with Practitioners': Print and the Professions
- 'Painting from Beggars': The Business of Pictures
- Part 4. Culture
- VIII. Teresa Cornelys's London - Public Pleasures
- 'High Lords, Deep Statesmen, Dutchesses and Whores': Carlisle House
- 'Down on Your Knees': The Stage
- 'Sights and Monsters': The Lions of London
- No Equal in Europe: Pleasure Gardens
- 'Too Busy with Madam Geneva': Drinking and Socialising
- 'This Extravagant Itch of Gaming'
- IX. Martha Stracey's London - Prostitution
- 'How Do You Do Brother Waterman?': Prostitutes
- 'The Whoring Rage Came Upon Me': Men and Prostitution
- 'Damn Your Twenty Pound Note': Fashion and Vice
- X. Mary Young's London - Crime and Violence
- The Republic of Thieves: Plebeian Crime
- Virtue Overborn by Temptation: Genteel Crime
- 'Save Me Woody': Violence
- Part 5. Power
- XI. The Fieldings' London - Police, Prison and Punishment
- Mr Fielding's Men: Thief-Takers
- 'Pluck Off Your Hat Before the Constable': The Parish Police
- 'Hell in Epitome': Prison
- 'Low Lived, Blackguard Merry-Making': Public Punishments
- XII. Jonas Hanway's London - Religion and Charity
- Fear of God and Proper Subjection: Charity
- Nurseries of Religion, Virtue and Industry: Governing the Poor
- 'To Resest y e World y e Flesh and y e Devell': Religion
- 'No Hanoverian, No Presbyterian': Religion and Politics, 1700-59
- XIII. John Wilkes's London - Politics and Government
- 'Wilkes and Liberty!' 1760-68
- 'Life-Blood of the State': City versus Court, 1768-79
- Not a Prison Standing: The Gordon Riots, 1780
- 'I Would Have No King': Revolution and Democracy, 1780-79
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
