Read A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century

A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century

Jerry White

4.9/5 (32149 ratings)

Description:London in the eighteenth century was a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that had destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. The century that followed was an era of vigorous expansion and large-scale projects, of rapidly changing culture and commerce, as huge numbers of people arrived in the shining city, drawn by its immense wealth and power and its many diversions. Borrowing a phrase from Daniel Defoe, Jerry White calls London this great and monstrous thing, the grandeur of its new buildings and the glitter of its high life shadowed by poverty and squalor."A Great and Monstrous Thing" offers a street-level view of the city: its public gardens and prisons, its banks and brothels, its workshops and warehouses and its bustling, jostling crowds. White introduces us to shopkeepers and prostitutes, men and women of fashion and genius, street-robbers and thief-takers, as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London. What emerges is a picture of a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history and especially by class, for the divide between rich and poor in London was never greater or more destructive in the modern era than in these years.Despite this gulf, Jerry White shows us Londoners going about their business as bankers or beggars, reveling in an enlarging world of public pleasures, indulging in crimes both great and small amidst the tightening sinews of power and regulation, and the hesitant beginnings of London democracy."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0674073177

Description: London in the eighteenth century was a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that had destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. The century that followed was an era of vigorous expansion and large-scale projects, of rapidly changing culture and commerce, as huge numbers of people arrived in the shining city, drawn by its immense wealth and power and its many diversions. Borrowing a phrase from Daniel Defoe, Jerry White calls London this great and monstrous thing, the grandeur of its new buildings and the glitter of its high life shadowed by poverty and squalor."A Great and Monstrous Thing" offers a street-level view of the city: its public gardens and prisons, its banks and brothels, its workshops and warehouses and its bustling, jostling crowds. White introduces us to shopkeepers and prostitutes, men and women of fashion and genius, street-robbers and thief-takers, as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London. What emerges is a picture of a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history and especially by class, for the divide between rich and poor in London was never greater or more destructive in the modern era than in these years.Despite this gulf, Jerry White shows us Londoners going about their business as bankers or beggars, reveling in an enlarging world of public pleasures, indulging in crimes both great and small amidst the tightening sinews of power and regulation, and the hesitant beginnings of London democracy."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century

A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century

More Books

Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea

Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea

Pictures of Men, Manners and the Times

Pictures of Men, Manners and the Times

Pictures of Men, Manners, and Times

Pictures of Men, Manners, and Times

Jennings at Large

Jennings at Large

The Keys of Middle-earth

The Keys of Middle-earth

Some of the Philosophical Essays on Socialism and Science

Some of the Philosophical Essays on Socialism and Science

The Grotonian

The Grotonian

Abnormal

Abnormal

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Negligible tales. The parenticide club. The fourth estate. The ocean wave. "On with the dance!" Epigrams

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Negligible tales. The parenticide club. The fourth estate. The ocean wave. "On with the dance!" Epigrams