London: A Social History - Couverture rigide

Porter, Roy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241129443 ISBN 13 : 9780241129449

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 1995

Synopsis

Describes London's social life, its growth and the experiences of living in the city. With the redevelopment of Docklands and much of the East End, London is now beginning to experience a transformation comparable in scale to those produced by the building of the West End or the coming of the railways in earlier centuries. As such, the 1990s is an ideal opportunity to re-examine the social history of the environment in which, for several centuries, more people lived, worked, played and died than in other cities in the West.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ... a timely and brilliant book.' CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Biographie de l'auteur

ROY PORTER is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He is most recently the author of THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND (HarperCollins, 1998) and the forthcoming (10/00) Allen Lane title ENLIGHTENMENT: BRITAIN AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241129443
• ISBN 13: 9780241129449
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible