Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
Liza Picard
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books.
This period of mid-Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the…
Издательство: | Phoenix House |
ISBN: 0753820900, 9780753820902
Год издания: 2006
Язык: Английский
Paperback
496 pages
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