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London : a social history /​ Roy Porter.

By: Publication details: London : Penguin, 2000.Description: xvii, 541 p., [16]p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780140105933 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 942.1 POR 008721
Online resources: Summary: Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 942.1 POR 008721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 008721

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-510) and index.

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.

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