Binding: Hardcover
Description: Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world - wide prominence during which it dominated the economic political social and cultural life of the British Isles as never before nor since. London incorporates the best recent work in urban history contemporary accounts from Londoners and tourists and fictional works featuring the city in order to trace London's rise and explore its role as a harbinger of modernity while examining how its citizens coped with those achievements. London covers the full range of life in London from the splendid galleries of Whitehall to the damp and sooty alleyways of the East End. Readers will brave the dangers of plague and fire witness the spectacles of the Lord Mayor's Pageant and the hangings at Tyburn and take refreshment in the city's pleasure - gardens coffee - houses and taverns.
Title: London A Social And Cultural History 1550 1750
Author(s): Ward Joseph P. (University Of Mississippi)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521896528
Pages: 438 Pages, 4 Maps; 52 Halftones, Unspecified; 1 Line Drawings, Unspecified
Publication Date: 7/9/2012
Category: Social & Cultural History