London
A Social History
$32.99
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2000
Summary
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 c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140105933 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014010593X |
| Author: | Roy Porter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 129mm x 199mm |
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Roy Porter
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 and the forthcoming title ENLIGHTENMENT: BRITAIN AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD.
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