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Author | : Leo Hollis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802779727 |
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By the middle of the seventeenth century, London was on the verge of collapse. Its ancient infrastructure could no longer support its explosive growth; the English Civil War had torn society apart; and in 1665 the capital was struck by a plague that claimed 100,000 lives. And then, the following year, the Great Fire destroyed huge swaths of the city. As Leo Hollis recounts in his stirring history of the period, modern London was born out of this crucible. Among the catalysts for this rebirth were five extraordinary men, each deeply influenced by the Civil War, whose intersecting lives form the heart of London Rising: famed philosopher John Locke, whose ideas about the individual would outline a new theory of civil society based on natural rights; diarist John Evelyn, who insightfully chronicled the tumult and transformation before him; the polymathic scientist and architect Robert Hooke; developer Nicholas Barbon, who rebuilt much of the city after the fire; and Christoper Wren, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time, whose reconstruction of St. Paul's Cathedral was the essential symbol of London's rebirth. The city today is in great part the result of the myriad advances in literature, planning, science, and social issues forged by these five. Hollis paints a vibrant portrait of one of the world's greatest cities, and of a generation of men whose impact on London is unmatched.
Author | : Joseph Clayton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Democracy |
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Author | : Walter Lionel George |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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Author | : Pamela Nightingale |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000092135 |
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The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in value. The articles assess how these changes came about, as well as the degree to which both political and economic forces altered the pattern of regional wealth and enterprise in ways which saw the northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed financial as well as the political capital of England.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Alex London |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374306915 |
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In Gold Wings Rising, the final installment of Alex London's Skybound Saga, Kylee and Brysen must fight for their lives and their humanity. Book 1 was a Today Show Book Club Pick! The war on the ground has ended, but the war with the sky has just begun. After the Siege of the Six Villages, the ghost eagles have trapped Uztaris on both sides of the conflict. The villagers and Kartami alike hide in caves, huddled in terror as they await nightly attacks. Kylee aims to plunge her arrows into each and every ghost eagle; in her mind, killing the birds is the only way to unshackle the city’s chains. But Brysen has other plans. While the humans fly familiar circles around each other, the ghost eagles create schemes far greater and more terrible than either Kylee or Brysen could have imagined. Now, the tug-of-war between love and power begins to fray, threatening bonds of siblinghood and humanity alike.
Author | : Hilaire Belloc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 1724 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Local government |
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Total Pages | : 1338 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Banks and banking |
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Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Insurance |
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