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Autor:
Mike Raco, Frances Brill
As one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, London has become a mass generator of employment and a magnet for inward migration. Yet London is also a divided city, whose expansion has generated many planning challenges. This book explores the tens
Autor:
Robert K. Batchelor
If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trade
Autor:
John Broich
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for mea
Autor:
Mark Ford
Called “the flour of Cities all,” London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the
Autor:
Robert O. Bucholz, Joseph P. Ward
Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book is a history of London during this crucial period of its rise to world-wide prominence, during which it
Autor:
Aarhus University Press
'Jeg er forelsket! I London. Det må jeg ganske enkelt være, for hvad kan forklaringen ellers være på, at jeg finder det let pirrende og spændende at opleve severe delays på Piccadilly Line-tuben en torsdag morgen, hvor jeg skal skifte på Kings
Autor:
Saskia Huc-Hepher
Who are the people that make up London's French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is ‘Frenchness'played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? And what impact has Brexit had on French Londoners'sense
Autor:
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
In the first hundred years of the UK rail network, the seaside figures as a nerve centre, managing and making visible the period's complex interplay between health, death, gender and sexuality. This monograph discusses around 130 novels of the railwa
Autor:
Peter Dazeley, Mark Daly
This visually stunning guide takes you on a journey to some of London's most interesting, surprising and unique places. London is packed with little-known treasures: remarkably preserved historical houses, fascinating museums and galleries, unusual c
Autor:
Cynthia Cockburn
The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration since its origin. Looking to London steps into the maelstrom of current and recent wars and the resulting migration crisi