The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present - Brossura

Thorold, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 191067074X ISBN 13: 9781910670743

Casa editrice: Thistle Publishing, 2016

Riassunto

Clapham and Mayfair to Marylebone, much of the London we know today has been created by its richest inhabitants. After the Great Fire of 1666, a new London thrust out from its old confines of the City and the narrow precinct of Westminster. 

The rich were eager to escape the pollution of the riverside, the overcrowding and the slums. They colonised the surrounding country villages and built over the cornfields and pasture and market gardens, claiming them as their own and dictating their character for centuries to come. 

Where they went depended on who they were: different districts appealed to different groups. The partisans clustered in St James's and later in Belgravia to be near the Court; the colonials from the East and the West Indies settled Marylebone, convenient as it was for the City. The Jewish community chose Bayswater and Hampstead. 

Peter Thorold's book reveals where the rich lived, why they moved from one district to another and what went on behind the doors of their magnificent houses. By examining the movement of the wealthy of London, Thorold illuminates the subtle but inexorable shaping of this great city.

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L'autore:

Peter Thorold was born in London and educated in the United States and Britain, reading history at New College, Oxford. His professional career was spent in the City as an insurance broker and as a director of a number of companies. He lives with his wife in London and in France.

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• Editore: Thistle Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 191067074X
• ISBN 13: 9781910670743
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 488