TY - BOOK AU - Bucholz,Robert O. ED - Teaching Company TI - London : : a short history of the greatest city in the Western world / T2 - The great courses SN - 1598035304 AV - LB 14.6 B921l 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Chantilly, Va. PB - Teaching Co. KW - Education. KW - Teaching KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Londres (Inglaterra) KW - Historia KW - Vida social y costumbres KW - Vida intelectual N1 - 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? N2 - 24 thirty minute lectures on the history of London ER -