Rövid leírás:
London has been the hub of social and political life in Britain for almost 2,000 years — the only city in the world to have held such a dominant national position for so long. This colourful new study, by a lifelong scholar of the city, takes us on a fascinating voyage through London’s past, from the Roman military outpost at the first bridging of the Thames to the world-class cultural and financial centre it is today.
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Hosszú leírás:
London has for most of 2,000 years been the hub of the political, economic, and cultural life of Britain. No other world city has held such a dominant national position for so long. This new study, by the doyen of London historians, describes London’s diverse past, from its origins as a Roman settlement at the first bridging of the Thames to the world-class metropolis it is today. It provides a vivid account of a city which was the `deere sweete’ place which Chaucer loved more than any other city on earth, which was for Dickens his `magic lantern’, and to Keats `a great sea’, howling for more wrecks. It is also a story of much contrast and remarkable resilience; through great fires and pestilence, civil war, and the Blitz, London has rebuilt and reinvented itself for each generation.
At ?25, Francis Sheppard’s history of Lodon must be the bargian of the millennium. Handsomely produced and copiously illustrated, it covers the entire known period of London’s history from the Londinium of Roan times to the Greater South East of today.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Part I. Londinium
urban origins
early Londinium
change and decay
Part II. From Londinium to the Chartered City of London, c.400-c.1530
Londinium and Lundenwic c.400-c.886
from Lundenburg to the birth of a municipal commune c.866-1215
the emergence of the medieval capital c.1216-c.1530
Part III. The Genesis of Modern London 1530-1700
the rise of the metropolis
religious and educational revolution
political revolutions
the processes of growth
the administration of the metropolis
death and life in London
Part IV. Augustan and Georgian London 1700-1830
the growth and structure of London
London and the genesis of the industrial economy
religion, education and leisure
metropolitan politics and metropolitan class
Part V. Metropolitan and Imperial London 1830-1914
structures of the modern metropolis
the people of London
the imperial and global metropolis
Part VI. The Uncertain Metropolis 1914-1997
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
