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A History of London
The Romans built it, the Angles and Saxons invaded it, the Vikings ravaged it, the Normans conquered it. From its beginnings as a foreign outpost on the banks of the Thames in the first century to, in the twenty-first, the teeming metropolitan sprawl of an extraordinarily cosmopolitan world capital, London has been shaped by successive waves of migration into a marvelous p...more
Hardcover, 1136 pages
Published
May 1st 1999
by Carroll & Graf Publishers
(first published January 1st 1998)
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Now this is a comprehensive history of London, more than 900 pages plus almost 100 more of endnotes and bibliography. It's also very readable. Inwood asserts in the preface that "London, I found, is not a city that can easily be enjoyed in ignorance," and he is determined to promote enjoyment by dispelling ignorance. As Roy Porter's introduction points out, Inwood's approach emphasizes people as much as geography, politics, architecture, and so on, always making clear how those topics have affec...more
Over the past two weeks, whenever I haven't been packing, working, or cleaning, I've been marathon reading Inwood's History of London. Don't let the book's size daunt you: Inwood keeps everything zipping along at a good clip and doesn't get bogged down in minutiae -- if anything I would have preferred more detail in some sections. Overall, though, I found this extremely coherent and readable, and a good foundational overview of London's development.
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