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London. The Biography [Buy it!] | Peter Ackroyd | USD 18.47 (Tue Jun 4 19:10:25 2024) | AbebooksUK | The London Bookworm | ISBN10: 0099422581, ISBN13: 9780099422587, [publisher: Vintage, London England] Softcover Trade Paperback signed by the author.light wear and crease edges Contents: List of Illustrations. Chronology. Maps. Acknowledgements. The City as a Body - From Prehistory to 1066. The Early Middle Ages. London Contrasts. The Late Medieval City. Onward and Upward. Trading Streets and Trading Parishes. A London Neighbourhood. London as Theatre. Pestilence and Flame. Afte the Fire. Crime and Punishment. Voracious London. London as Crowd. The Natural History of London. Night and Day. London's Radicals. Violent London. Black Magic, White Magic. A Fever of Building. London's Rivers. Under the ground. Victorian Megalopolis. London Outcasts. Women and Children. Continuities. East and South. The Centre of Empire. After the great War. Blitz. Refashioning the City. Cockney Visionaries. An Essay on Sources. Index. Illustrated. 822 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) [East Sussex, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001] |