Titre : |
London: A social History. |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Porter. Roy, Auteur |
Editeur : |
london : Penguin books |
Année de publication : |
1996 |
Importance : |
431p. |
Format : |
25cm*19cm |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-14-024238-6 |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
Index. décimale : |
942 Angleterre et pays de Galles |
Résumé : |
Roy Porter, noted and trained as a medical historian, turned his attention to the social development of London, and we are the richer for it. Porter is a Londoner, and has a passion for the city. He is, however, frank in his conviction that London has had it's hour upon the stage:'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 |
London: A social History. [texte imprimé] / Porter. Roy, Auteur . - london : Penguin books, 1996 . - 431p. ; 25cm*19cm. ISBN : 978-0-14-024238-6 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
Index. décimale : |
942 Angleterre et pays de Galles |
Résumé : |
Roy Porter, noted and trained as a medical historian, turned his attention to the social development of London, and we are the richer for it. Porter is a Londoner, and has a passion for the city. He is, however, frank in his conviction that London has had it's hour upon the stage:'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 |
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