London in 18th Century
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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen
from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many
landmark buildings destroyed, it had been brought to the brink. But
the following century was a period of vigorous expansion, of
scientific and artistic genius, of blossoming reason, civility,
elegance and manners. It was also an age of extremes: of starving
poverty and exquisite fashion, of joy and despair, of sentiment and
cruelty. Society was fractured by geography, politics, religion and
history. And everything was complicated by class. As Daniel Defoe
put it, London really was a 'great and monstrous Thing'.
&,nbsp, Jerry White's tremendous portrait of this turbulent
century explores how and to what extent Londoners negotiated and
repaired these open wounds. We see them going about their business
as bankers or beggars, revelling 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. &,nbsp, In the long-awaited
finale to his acclaimed history of London over 300 years, Jerry
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.&,nbsp,
Výber kníh autorov
Bodley Head ,
Jerry White
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Bodley Head,
Jerry White
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Slovart
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Slovart
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