Title London : a short history of the greatest city in the Western world / Robert Bucholz.

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Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2009]

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Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	GREAT COURSES CD BOOK 942.1 BUCHOLZ	Check Shelf

Description	12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 193 pages ; 19 cm).
Series	Great courses, Modern history
	Great courses (Compact disc)
Performer	Lecturer, Robert Bucholz, Loyola University, Chicago.
Note	In two containers (18 cm.).
	Compact discs.
Summary	Professor Bucholz delivers twenty-four thirty minute lectures on the history of London.
Contents	Part 1. There's no place like London -- The rise and fall of Roman Londinium -- Medieval London's thousand-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.
	Part 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?
Subject	London (England) -- History.
	London (England) -- Intellectual life.
	London (England) -- Social life and customs.
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Genre/Form	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Audiobooks.
Added Author	Teaching Company.
ISBN	1598035282
	9781598035285
Music No.	8894 Teaching Company

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