London: The Story of a Great City

No city has a more dramatic history than London: fire, plague, and riots have shaken its spirit, but never brought it down. The extraordinary story unfolds here through a combination of artifacts, maps, documents, paintings, photographs, and unparalleled writing. From its origins as a Roman outpost to its role as a source of inspiration for Dickens, the city’s history is filled with tales of mayhem and power.
 
New edition with facsimile documents now printed in the book.
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London: The Story of a Great City

No city has a more dramatic history than London: fire, plague, and riots have shaken its spirit, but never brought it down. The extraordinary story unfolds here through a combination of artifacts, maps, documents, paintings, photographs, and unparalleled writing. From its origins as a Roman outpost to its role as a source of inspiration for Dickens, the city’s history is filled with tales of mayhem and power.
 
New edition with facsimile documents now printed in the book.
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London: The Story of a Great City

London: The Story of a Great City

by Jerry White
London: The Story of a Great City

London: The Story of a Great City

by Jerry White

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No city has a more dramatic history than London: fire, plague, and riots have shaken its spirit, but never brought it down. The extraordinary story unfolds here through a combination of artifacts, maps, documents, paintings, photographs, and unparalleled writing. From its origins as a Roman outpost to its role as a source of inspiration for Dickens, the city’s history is filled with tales of mayhem and power.
 
New edition with facsimile documents now printed in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780233002859
Publisher: Carlton Books
Publication date: 08/03/2010
Pages: 124
Product dimensions: 10.50(w) x 12.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author


Jerry White is Visiting Professor in London History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the foremost historian of modern London. His London in the 20th Century: a City and Its People (Penguin) won the Wolfson History Prize for 2001; and his bestselling London in the 19th Century: “A Human Awful Wonder of God” (Jonathan Cape) was published to critical acclaim in 2007. This trilogy on modern London was completed by London in the 18th Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing, published by Random House in 2012; one critic wrote, “White brings a diligence and contagious zest that may serve to discourage anyone from ever tackling the subject again.”
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