London, a social history
This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London’s fortunes, people, and imperial glory with brio and wit.
Print Book, English, 1998, ©1994
1st Harvard Univ. Pr. pbk ed View all formats and editions
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998, ©1994
History
xv, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780674538399, 0674538390
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Introduction
Formation to reformation
Tudor London
War, plague and fire
The triumph of town : from restoration to regency
Commercial city : 1650-1800
Culture city : life under the Georges
Capitalism in the capital : the Victorian age
'The contagion of numbers' : the building of the Victorian capital 1820-1890
Bumbledom? London's politics 1800-1890
Victorian life
'A fungus' like growth' : expansion 1890-1945
Modern growth, modern government : 1890-1945
Swinging London, dangling economy : 1945-1975
Thatcher's London
Conclusion : The London marathon