Author: MAUREEN WALLER
Title: 1700
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 388. More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the shining dome of Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, symbolising a new strength and confidence. London, with a population of over half a million, was now Europe's largest, richest and most cosmopolitian city. Maureen Waller describes a familiar yet alien world. Using anecdotes, detail and amusing contrasts, she draws on court records newspapers, and recorded eyewitness accounts to create a vividly colourful vision. of a city at a unique moment in its history. ISBN: 9780340739662. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780340739662
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Title: 1700
Description: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 388. More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the shining dome of Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, symbolising a new strength and confidence. London, with a population of over half a million, was now Europe's largest, richest and most cosmopolitian city. Maureen Waller describes a familiar yet alien world. Using anecdotes, detail and amusing contrasts, she draws on court records newspapers, and recorded eyewitness accounts to create a vividly colourful vision. of a city at a unique moment in its history. ISBN: 9780340739662. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780340739662
Price: EUR 20.00 = appr. US$ 21.74 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2176705
- Book number: 2176705
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