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Author: Roy Porter Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674538399 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Author: Roy Porter Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674538399 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.
Author: Mark S.R. Jenner Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719051524 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
Events such as the Fire of London and the Plague, and historic locations like the Globe Theatre, are part of London's heritage. Yet until recently, the history of the city between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. During this period, London's population soared from around 50,000 to nearly half a million--the demographic explosion transformed the city to a metropolis. London became a center of new social and sexual identities and a solvent of older, more hierarchical forms of social organization. The essays in this volume cover the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption. Within these themes are thieves, prostitutes, litigious wives, the poor, disease, “great quantities of gooseberry pye,” and the taxing question of fresh water.
Author: Steven Shapin Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226750191 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 516
Book Description
A Social History of Truth is a bold theoretical and historical exploration of the social conditions that make knowledge possible in any period and in any endeavor.
Author: Stephen Inwood Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780333671542 Category : London (England) Languages : en Pages : 1136
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history of London - the incredibly unique and complicated city - from the fires and plundering of latterday Londinium to the frenetic art, music and politics of London.
Author: Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674772854 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
Author: Asa Briggs Publisher: ISBN: 9780140136067 Category : England Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.
Author: Edward Royle Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1849665303 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 577
Book Description
Fully revised and updated, the third edition of this deservedly popular history book incorporates new currents in historical writing on matters such as the language of class, the position of women, and the revolution worked by the Internet and mobile technologies.
Author: Jane Pettigrew Publisher: Virago Press ISBN: Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Drawing on the collections and archives of the National Trust, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the social history of tea from the 17th century to the present day.
Author: Tim Hitchcock Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107025273 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 479
Book Description
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Author: Roy Porter
Author: Roy Porter
Author: Mark S.R. Jenner
Author: Steven Shapin
Author: Stephen Inwood
Author: Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Author: Asa Briggs
Author: Edward Royle
Author: J. A. Sharpe
Author: Jane Pettigrew
Author: Tim Hitchcock