A history of London
"The history of London may indeed comprise a history of printing, the theater, newspapers, museums, pleasure gardens, music hall, international finance, parliamentary government, and the novel, but for Stephen Inwood it is primarily a history of the people whose tastes, talents, trades, and pocketbooks have created this grand, monstrous metropolis - and sometimes threatened to destroy it. For Inwood, the city's history is forged no less by the common Londoners who tore down monasteries, saw their city burn to the ground, fled the plague, poisoned their own water supply, toiled in sweatshops, survived the Blitz, and moved into Council flats than it is by Alfred the Great or William the Conqueror, Henry Bolingbroke or Oliver Cromwell, Geoffrey Chaucer or Anthony Trollope, William Pitt or Margaret Thatcher." "Drawing on a multitude of sources and with an abundance of unfamiliar anecdotes, Inwood vividly explores the history of a city defined as much by the mob as the monarch, the laborer as the lord, and on every colorful page shows why, as Samuel Johnson put it, "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.""--Jacket
History
xxii, 1111 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780333671535, 0333671538
40517708
Foreword / Roy Porter
The First Thousand Years, AD 43-1066. 1. Londinium. 2. Anglo-Saxon London
Medieval London, 1066-1520. 3. Power and Conflict. 4. Economy and Society
London from the Reformation to the Great Plague, 1520-1665. 5. Reformation, Population and the Plague. 6. Stability, Prosperity and Growth. 7. The Pleasures of London. 8. London in the Civil War, 1640-1660
London, 1660-1815. 9. Fire, Rebuilding and the Suburbs. 10. Population and Health. 11. An Urban Culture. 12. Making a Living. 13. The Art of Government. 14. Politics and Public Order
Nineteenth-Century London, 1815-1914. 15. Population, Health and Local Government. 16. The Richest City in the World. 17. Ragged London. 18. Transport and Suburban Growth. 19. Keeping the Peace. 20. Popular Politics and Trade Unionism. 21. Passing the Time
Modern London, 1914-1997. 22. The Great War. 23. Between the Wars, 1918-1939. 24. Under Fire, 1939-1945. 25. Postwar London, 1945-1965. 26. A Divided City, 1965-1997
Maps on lining papers