Ebook {Epub PDF} London: A Social History by Roy Porter

 · This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Roy Porter paints a detailed landscape—from the grid streets and fortresses of Julius Caesar and William . This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Roy Porter paints a detailed landscape—from the grid streets and fortresses of Julius Caesar and William the Brand: Roy Porter. Roy Porter's bestselling "London: A Social History" provides an interesting but idiosyncratic overview of the history and development of that greatest of modern cities/5(72).

London A Social History by Roy Porter A Londoner by birth, albeit a 'sawf' Londoner like myself, Roy Porter's book is written by a man who loves history and who adores London. He seems on a crusade not just to document the ups and downs of the capital but to explain the interconnected reasons behind each ebb and flow of the city's. In-text: (London: A Social History - Roy Porter - Review - A city and its peoples, ) Your Bibliography: bltadwin.ru London: A Social History - Roy Porter - Review - A city and its peoples. Verified Purchase. Roy Porter's bestselling "London: A Social History" provides an interesting but idiosyncratic overview of the history and development of that greatest of modern cities. It is partially an ecclestiastical history of the city; partially a history of social and cultural norms in the 17th and 18th century; partially an indictment.

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. Roy Porter’s LONDON: A SOCIAL HISTORY is written from the point of view of London’s present-day crisis and decline, but it depicts the immense vitality that made London the quintessential. Roy Porter's bestselling "London: A Social History" provides an interesting but idiosyncratic overview of the history and development of that greatest of modern cities.