London In The Eighteenth Century

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674073173
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Great and Monstrous Thing written by Jerry White and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London in the eighteenth century was a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that had destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. The century that followed was an era of vigorous expansion and large-scale projects, of rapidly changing culture and commerce, as huge numbers of people arrived in the shining city, drawn by its immense wealth and power and its many diversions. Borrowing a phrase from Daniel Defoe, Jerry White calls London “this great and monstrous thing,” the grandeur of its new buildings and the glitter of its high life shadowed by poverty and squalor. A Great and Monstrous Thing offers a street-level view of the city: its public gardens and prisons, its banks and brothels, its workshops and warehouses—and its bustling, jostling crowds. White introduces us to shopkeepers and prostitutes, men and women of fashion and genius, street-robbers and thief-takers, as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London. What emerges is a picture of a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history—and especially by class, for the divide between rich and poor in London was never greater or more destructive in the modern era than in these years. Despite this gulf, Jerry White shows us Londoners going about their business as bankers or beggars, reveling in an enlarging world of public pleasures, indulging in crimes both great and small—amidst the tightening sinews of power and regulation, and the hesitant beginnings of London democracy.

Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826427154
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London written by Tim Hitchcock and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London in the 18th century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of England in huge numbers. For a few the streets were paved with gold, but for the majority it was a harsh world with little guarantee of money or food. For the poor and destitute, London's streets offered little more than the barest living. Yet men, women and children found a great variety of ways to eke out their existence, sweeping roads, selling matches, singing ballads and performing all sorts of menial labor. Many of these activities, apart from the direct begging of the disabled, depended on an appeal to charity, but one often mixed with threats and promises. Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London provides a remarkable insight into the lives of Londoners, for all of whom the demands of charity and begging were part of their everyday world.

Author : Vic Gatrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802716024
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Laughter written by Vic Gatrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.

Author : Mary Dorothy George
Publisher : London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner; New York, A. A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Life in the XVIIIth Century written by Mary Dorothy George and published by London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner; New York, A. A. Knopf. This book was released on 1925 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An attempt to give a picture of the conditions of life and work of the poorer classes in London in the eighteenth century ..."--Preface.

Author : Walter Besant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London in the Eighteenth Century written by Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025273
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Lives written by Tim Hitchcock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.

Author : Tony Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317889878
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London written by Tony Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole, its policing systems and its attitudes towards the female urban poor. Drawing on the archives of London's parishes, jury records, reports from Southwark gaol as well as other sources which have been overlooked by historians, it provides a fascinating study for all those interested in Georgian society.

Author : Peter Guillery
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300102383
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Small House in Eighteenth-century London written by Peter Guillery and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era's urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population. Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialisation (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the eighteenth-century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence.

Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582453
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smell in Eighteenth-Century England written by William Tullett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.

Author : T.S. Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136586997
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Economic History of England: the Eighteenth Century written by T.S. Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation. This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade and finance in eighteenth-century England. It throws light on economic fluctuations and on the changing conditions of the wage-earners. The approach is that of an economist and use is made of hitherto neglected statistics. But treatment and language are simple. The book is intended not only for the specialist but also for others who turn to the past for its own sake or for understanding the present. This book was first published in 1955.