The Making of Modern London [Hardcover]

Gavin Weightman (Author), Steve Humphries (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0091920043 | ISBN-13: 978-0091920043 | Publication Date: October 23, 2007 | Edition: 1st Edition in this form

On their original publication, the four volumes of The Making of Modern London were hailed as innovative and riveting histories of the city, combining living memory with diligent historical research. Accompanying a popular television series of the same name, The Making of Modern London was a groundbreaking publication drawing upon the extensive knowledge and expertise of leading academics of the day. Now skillfully woven into one volume, this new publication picks up the story in 1815, when London was the gas-lit, horse-drawn city of Charles Dickens' day. In the two centuries that followed, London has become one of the greatest cities in the world, with a history that is endlessly fascinating and enduring, especially when it is related in the words of the people who lived and breathed the city—from the lightermen on the 19th-century River Thames and the debutantes who jitterbugged their way around the dancefloors of the 1930s to the East Enders sharing their emotional memories of the air raids and bombings of World War II. This is one of the few histories that records the excitement of the Coronation in 1953, the "Swinging London" of the 1960s, and the revolution in dress and habits from the 1970s onwards. Written with verve, sympathy, and elan, this is the intimate story of London.

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About the Author

Gavin Weightman is the director of the television series The Making of Modern London, and the author of The Frozen Water Trade, London's Thames, and Signor Marconi's Magic Box. Steve Humphries is an oral historian and the author of A Secret World of Sex and All Quiet on the Home Front.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 484 pages
• Publisher: Ebury Press; 1st Edition in this form edition (October 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0091920043
• ISBN-13: 978-0091920043
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,566,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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