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London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. In one hour s walk from west to east, London revealed a cavalcade of life chances - from all the prizes that civilisation could offer on the one hand to a barbarous struggle for existence on the other. As William Blake put it, London was a Human awful wonder of God . he nineteenth century was London s greatest so far. It was a century of genius - poets, novelists, journalists in the front rank, but also architects, scientists, philanthropists, and politicians too. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday, Barnardo and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. And it was in the nineteenth century that Londoners began to address the contradictions and extremes of metropolitan life and try to impose some order on their turbulent city. The story of London in these hectic decades must first of all uncover how far the war on disorder succeeded. And how far it failed. erry White s dazzling new book is the first in a hundred years to explore London s history over the nineteenth century as aProduct Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224062725
eBay Product ID (ePID)89952101
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Book TitleLondon in the Nineteenth Century
AuthorJerry White
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages640 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height240 mm
Item Width165 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJerry White