London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City 0300248784, 9780300248784

London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City 9780300258820

The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it

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Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds 9780520382251

Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. Fragments of the City examines the frag

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Japan and the City of London 9781472553379

From an insider’s position, Sir Paul Newall tells the story of Japan’s links with the City of London and explains why th

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London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689 9780226080796

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp,

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The Seventeenth Century

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Politics and Piety at the Royal Sites of the Spanish Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century (Habsburg Worlds) 9782503591599, 2503591590

Institutions under royal control included not only the king's royal residences and the royal chapels attached to th

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Crime, Prosecution and Social Relations: The Summary Courts of the City of London in the Late Eighteenth Century 0230203973, 9780230203976

Offers a fascinating view of the social history of Georgian London through the workings of the Summary courts. By analyz

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London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800 1107639948, 9781107639942

London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-ce

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Chinese Lyricists of the Seventeenth Century 9780824888503

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Seventeenth-Century Science and the Arts 9781400878918

Was there a continuity between the "vigorous art and the seminal science" of the seventeenth century? How did

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