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Author | : Jerry White |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1446477118 |
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Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. 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. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
Author | : Lynda Nead |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300085051 |
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"In this innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a fresh account of modernity and metropolitan life. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern city in the 1860s and the emergence of new ways of producing and consuming visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jerry White |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847924476 |
Download London In The 19th Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. 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. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'. In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played, and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
Author | : Christopher Harvie |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2000-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192853988 |
Download Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : John Corry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1801 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lee Jackson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300192053 |
Download Dirty Old London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
Author | : Kathryn Gleadle |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403937540 |
Download British Women in the Nineteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. It aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon recent, revisionist research. The book highlights not merely the ideologies and economic circumstances which shaped women's lives, but highlights the sheer diversity of women's own experiences and identities. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.
Author | : Lee Jackson |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843312301 |
Download A Dictionary of Victorian London Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.
Author | : Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Download London and Its Environs in the Nineteenth Century, Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Kristin D. Hussey |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822988445 |
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Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, significantly reduced travel time for colonists and imperial servants traveling home to see their families, enjoy a period of study leave, or recuperate from the tropical climate. With their minds enervated by the sun, livers disrupted by the heat, and blood teeming with parasites, these patients brought the empire home and, in doing so, transformed medicine in Britain. With Imperial Bodies in London, Kristin D. Hussey offers a postcolonial history of medicine in London. Following mobile tropical bodies, her book challenges the idea of a uniquely domestic medical practice, arguing instead that British medicine was imperial medicine in the late Victorian era. Using the analytic tools of geography, she interrogates sites of encounter across the imperial metropolis to explore how medical research and practice were transformed and remade at the crossroads of empire.