London: A Social History - Hardcover

Porter, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241129443 ISBN 13: 9780241129449

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1995

Synopsis

'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ... a timely and brilliant book.' CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR

About this title

About the Author:

ROY PORTER is Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. He is most recently the author of THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND (HarperCollins, 1998) and the forthcoming (10/00) Allen Lane title ENLIGHTENMENT: BRITAIN AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0241129443
• ISBN 13: 9780241129449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Illustrator: Well-illustrated