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London in the Nineteenth Century
- Narrated by: Neil Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.
London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. This was the London of Blake, Thackeray and Mayhew, of Nash, Faraday and Disraeli. Most of all it was the London of Dickens. As William Blake put it, London was 'a Human awful wonder of God'.
In Jerry White's dazzling history we witness the city's unparalleled metamorphosis over the course of the century through the daily lives of its inhabitants. We see how Londoners worked, played and adapted to the demands of the metropolis during this century of dizzying change. The result is a panorama teeming with life.
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- JWW
- 12-06-20
Outstanding, fascinating
A great history, read wonderfully well. The growth of London in the 19th century represented the birth of the modern nation and the beginning of civility. The bold ambition, architectural triumph and changes in housing, infrastructure, transport, education, medicine, policing and the rest in the last 30 years were staggering.
That poverty remained at the end of the century was a blight but does not deny the great distance traveled. And, lest we forget, the great advances were achieved and paid for by capitalism and individual enterprise, and not by woke snowflakery with social science degrees.
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- A. Curtis
- 15-03-19
Superb history
This is a fantastic book. It's nicely structured and in-depth enough without going too far down one aspect of London life. Really well read and nicely paced. Really enjoyed it. I would love the 20th century London book to be released on here too! Highly rated for anyone interested in history or indeed, the amazing varied city of London. First class.
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- MrsK
- 23-04-19
Amazing book...
This is brilliant, detailed and fascinating, but if you’re easily offended by terrible accents, try the non audio copy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-20
bizzarre
I just cannot get past the bizarrely robotic narration on this book, it makes it nigh on impossible to listen to the content.
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- Kindle Customer
- 16-09-21
London centric
suffers that periocular London view that only the city centre is London rather than the whole mass of greater London and all it joined pecies
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- Lee
- 08-06-21
London in the 19th century
An interesting book which is well read but could be a little dry. Listened over a couple of weeks.
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- Pauline Huang
- 13-03-21
Very interesting and informative.
It is a thoroughly researched work, covering every aspect of London in the 19th century.
Though it is full of data and often statistics, it doesn't sound dry at all, which is quite an
achievement.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-04-23
In depth
I found this book insightful and intersting. It really was a 100 years crammed into one book. Every bit of 19th Century London is in here - I really enjoyed it.
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- Michael
- 10-11-22
Thorough and entertaining
Detailed analysis of the progress of the great city through the century under several headings. Well presented and well delivered
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-10-22
Wonderful
Hugely enjoyable - especially the first half of the book which I found enthralling.
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