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London: A Short History (Paperback, New ed)
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London: A Short History (Paperback, New ed)
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Loot Price R263
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The structure of the book is chronological, with digressions. From
Roman and then Norman London, we move on to Chaucer's London - the
city of the Peasants Revolt, Dick Whittington and the great Livery
Companies. In Tudor and Stuart London many believed the city was
being wrecked by over-population, over-building and the greed of
speculators. Eighteenth-century London witnessed the South Sea
Bubble, gin, highwaymen and the Gordon riots; but also banking,
hospitals, and the elegant design of everyday things. In the
nineteenth century, expanding vigorously, the city resisted any
overall make-over. With Queen Victoria came the Railway Age, which
made and unmade the city. Chartism, anti-semitism, overcrowding and
cholera. But engineering triumphs too. If the First World War was a
nightmare happening elsewhere, the amazing six years of 1939-45
were the city's finest hour. Post-1945, property developers took
over, with disastrous results. The author celebrates the
cosmopolitan city that mobility and immigration have created, while
deploring the moronization' of the city, exemplified by the
Millennium
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