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The History of London

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CARROLL & GRAF PUBS Incorporated, 1998 - History - 1111 pages
The history of London may indeed comprise a history of printing, the theater, newspapers, museums, pleasure gardens, music hall, international finance, parliamentary government, and the novel, but for Stephen Inwood it is primarily a history of the people whose tastes, talents, trades, and pocketbooks have created this grand, monstrous metropolis - and sometimes threatened to destroy it. For Inwood, the city's history is forged no less by the common Londoners who tore down monasteries, saw their city burn to the ground, fled the plague, poisoned their own water supply, toiled in sweatshops, survived the Blitz, and moved into Council flats than it is by Alfred the Great or William the Conqueror, Henry Bolingbroke or Oliver Cromwell, Geoffrey Chaucer or Anthony Trollope, William Pitt or Margaret Thatcher.
Drawing on a multitude of sources and with an abundance of unfamiliar anecdotes, Inwood vividly explores the history of a city defined as much by the mob as the monarch, the laborer as the lord, and on every colorful page shows why, as Samuel Johnson put it, "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

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Over the past two weeks, whenever I haven't been packing, working, or cleaning, I've been marathon reading Inwood's History of London. Don't let the book's size daunt you: Inwood keeps everything ... Read full review

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Now this is a comprehensive history of London, more than 900 pages plus almost 100 more of endnotes and bibliography. It's also very readable. Inwood asserts in the preface that "London, I found, is ... Read full review

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About the author (1998)

Stephen Inwood is Principal Lecturer in History at Thames Valley University.

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TitleThe History of London
AuthorStephen Inwood
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCARROLL & GRAF PUBS Incorporated, 1998
ISBN0786706139, 9780786706136
Length1111 pages
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