London : a short history of the greatest city in the Western world /
Short history of the greatest city in the western world.
Robert O. Bucholz.
- Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2009.
- 2 v. ; 21 cm.
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Course no. 8894. "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
v. 1: There's no place like London -- The rise and fall of Roman Londinium -- Medieval London's throusand-year climb -- Economic life in Chaucer's London -- Politics and religion in Chaucer's London -- London embraces the early Tudors -- Elizabeth I and London as a stage -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- east -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- west -- London rejects the early Stuarts -- Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th-century London -- Plague and fire -- v. 2: London rises again -- as an imperial capital -- Johnson's London -- all that life can afford -- The underside of 18th-century London -- London confronts its problems -- Life in Dickens's London -- two windows into Victorian London -- Questions postponed and the Great War -- London's interwar expansion and diversions -- The Blitz -- the greatest target in the world -- Postwar London returns to life -- The varied winds of change -- Millennial London -- how do you like it?
24 thirty minute lectures on the history of London.
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