Eighteenth century London was posed between a medieval world and a modern society in , and no other book captures this dichotomy like Maureen Waller's Scenes from London Life, which blends investigative reporting with popular history using newspaper accounts, court records, letters and eyewitness descriptions to examine urban life of the www.doorway.ru by: 6. scenes from London life / Maureen Waller. Author: Waller, Maureen Published: New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, Edition: 1st American ed. Physical Description: has its parallels to the cultural climate of today: cheek-by-jowl brutality and civility, hazards and promise. Scenes from London Life is more than a. "Scenes from London Life" provides an excellent, cursory examination of life in the world's greatest metropolis, three hundred years ago. From treatments for typhoid fever (crushed snails), to a fairly detailed inventory of a tenement hovel, the author takes the reader on a brief, sweeping sojourn of a city rapidly in transition, where corpulent excess rubbed elbows with crushing, unimaginable www.doorway.ru by: 6.
Product Information. Maureen Waller captures the grit and excitement of London in Combining investigative reporting with popular history, she portrays London's teeming, sprawling urban life and creates a brilliant cultural map of a city poised between medievalism and empire in this Book of the Month Club Selection. Scenes From London Life|Maureen Waller, Keynes' General Theory of Interest: A Reconsideration (Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy)|Fiona MacLachlan, Official Report of the Fifth Universal Peace Congress Held at Chicago, United States of America, August 14 to 20, , Under the Auspices of the Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition|Universal peace congress. 5th Chi. Her first book was the highly acclaimed Scenes from London Life. She currently lives in London with her husband, who is a journalist and author. Maureen Waller was educated at University College London, where she studied medieval and modern history. She received a master's degree at Queen Mary College, London, in British and European.
Maureen Waller’s non-fiction history of the people of London at the turn of the Eighteenth Century is marvellous. She combines a rollickingly good prose style with a staggering depth of research. The book is separated into sixteen chapters, each covering a salient area of life; Food, Drink, Religion, Disease, etc. In its excesses and extravagances, in its sharp distinctions between the very rich and the very poor, has its parallels to the cultural climate of today: cheek-by-jowl brutality and civility, hazards and promise. Scenes from London Life is more than a snapshot of a particular time and place, it is a detailed portrait of the. "Scenes from London Life" provides an excellent, cursory examination of life in the world's greatest metropolis, three hundred years ago. From treatments for typhoid fever (crushed snails), to a fairly detailed inventory of a tenement hovel, the author takes the reader on a brief, sweeping sojourn of a city rapidly in transition, where corpulent excess rubbed elbows with crushing, unimaginable poverty.
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