A Great and Monstrous Thing
- ISBN-10
- 0674076400
- ISBN-13
- 9780674076402
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-02-28
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Jerry White
Description
A Great and Monstrous Thing offers a street-level view of eighteenth-century London, a city of grandeur and glitter, squalor and poverty, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. What emerges is a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history—and especially by class.
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