Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 797 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
Buch, Englisch, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 797 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
ISBN: 978-1-108-07397-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791-1873) was apprenticed to his printer father, but later became a journalist and then proprietor of various periodicals and magazines, many of which were driven by his concern for the education of the poor. As an author, he published a variety of works, including The Old Printer and the Modern Press (also reissued in this series). He claimed that this six-volume work on the architecture and history of London, published between 1841 and 1844, was neither a history nor a survey of London, but looked 'at the Present through the Past, and at the Past through the Present'. It relies on the skills of eminent artists to bring both the present and the past of London to life, and is arranged thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. This is a fascinating account of what was then the greatest city in the world.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
76. Beer; 77. Banks; 78. The Fleet Prison; 79. Fleet marriages; 80.-84. Westminster Abbey; 85. Old London rogueries; 86. London burials; 87. London fires; 88. Billingsgate; 89. London churches at the end of the fourteenth century; 90. Sketches of the history of crime and police in London; 91. Old St Paul's; 92. Old St Paul's (cont.); 93. Somerset House; 94. The Old Bailey; 95. Public refreshment; 96. New St Paul's; 97. New St Paul's (cont.); 98. Inns of Court; 99. Inns of Court (cont.); 100. The Reading Room of the British Museum.
