Birth of a Global City

Jerry White is truly the historian of London, and this may be his crowning achievement: a stunningly ambitious and brilliantly executed study of the great, indispensable city – in all its human drama and beguiling variousness – at this pivotal moment of world as well as British history – David Kynaston, author of A Northern Wind
This beautiful book is Jerry White at his best. An elegantly written and thought-provoking account of London during the Industrial Revolution, drawing fascinating interconnections across trade, money, empire, slavery, war and revolution to shed new light on the making of modernity and the creation of the great city we know today – Emma Griffin, Professor of British History, QMUL
A compelling trip through the dirt, drama, and danger of London at the turn of the nineteenth century: Jerry White shows us how the Revolution made London, and how London made the world – Michael Taylor, author of Impossible Monsters

Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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