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London and the 17th century : the making of the world's greatest city / Margarette Lincoln.

By: Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiii, 372 pp., 8 pp. of unnumbered plates : ill. (some color), maps. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780300248784 :
Other title:
  • London and the seventeenth century
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.106 23
  • 942.12066 23
Contents:
1. 'Oh what an Earth-quake is the alteration of a State!' -- 2. 'The most horrible treason' -- 3. Forging civic identity -- 4. 'Forraign Trade ... the means of our Treasure' -- 5. A city of extremes -- 6. The path to civil war -- 7. 'I see all the birds are flown' -- 8. 'The memory of the wicked shall rot' -- 9. Cromwell : a killjoy regime? -- 10. The uncertainties of war and commerce -- 11. Coffee-house culture : newspapers and gossip -- 12. Restoration and a licentious court -- 13. Plague, fire and war -- 14. The spirit of discovery : curiosity and experiment -- 15. Domestic anxieties : home improvements -- 16. Immigrants, or 'strangers' -- 17. Insurrection : James II loses his way -- 18. Taking sides : the Dutch Invasion, 1688 -- 19. A new regime : William and Mary's town -- 20. No time for cynics : towards a new century.
Summary: The remarkable history of seventeenth-century London - told through the lives of those who experienced it.
List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions Summer 2021
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 942.106 LIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000437598

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. 'Oh what an Earth-quake is the alteration of a State!' -- 2. 'The most horrible treason' -- 3. Forging civic identity -- 4. 'Forraign Trade ... the means of our Treasure' -- 5. A city of extremes -- 6. The path to civil war -- 7. 'I see all the birds are flown' -- 8. 'The memory of the wicked shall rot' -- 9. Cromwell : a killjoy regime? -- 10. The uncertainties of war and commerce -- 11. Coffee-house culture : newspapers and gossip -- 12. Restoration and a licentious court -- 13. Plague, fire and war -- 14. The spirit of discovery : curiosity and experiment -- 15. Domestic anxieties : home improvements -- 16. Immigrants, or 'strangers' -- 17. Insurrection : James II loses his way -- 18. Taking sides : the Dutch Invasion, 1688 -- 19. A new regime : William and Mary's town -- 20. No time for cynics : towards a new century.

The remarkable history of seventeenth-century London - told through the lives of those who experienced it.

Margarette Lincoln was visiting fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum. She is the author of Trading in War and British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730.

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