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LONDON THE BIOGRAPHY

by Peter Ackroyd

Published by Chatto & Windus.

Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper. 822 pages. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. A definitive account of the city.

SIGNED by author to title page. Vertical creases to front and rear cover.

ISBN: 1856197166
Stock no. 2109812

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Contents

  • The city as 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
  • After 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's 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

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