London Wilson A. N.
London Wilson A. N. The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. In Tudor and Stuart London many believed the city was being wrecked by over-population, over-building and the greed…
Specifikacia London Wilson A. N.
London Wilson A. N.
The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. In Tudor and Stuart London many believed the city was being wrecked by over-population, over-building and the greed of speculators. From Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery Companies.
In the nineteenth century, expanding vigorously, the city resisted any overall make-over. Eighteenth-century London witnessed the South Sea Bubble, gin, highwaymen and the Gordon riots; but also banking, hospitals, and the elegant design of everyday things. With Queen Victoria came the Railway Age, which made and unmade the city.
Chartism, anti-semitism, overcrowding and cholera. But engineering triumphs too. If the First World War was a nightmare happening elsewhere, the amazing six years of 1939-45 were the city's finest hour.
Post-1945, property
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