num_pages: 400
description: Maureen Waller captures the grit and excitement of London in 1700. Combining investigative reporting with popular history, she portrays London's teeming, sprawling urban life and creates a brilliant cultural map of a city poised between medievalism and empire in this Book of the Month Club Selection.
language: English
title: 1700: Scenes from London Life
titlecomplete: 1700: Scenes from London Life
genres: Historical, History, Cultural, 18th Century, European History, Research, Social, World History, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 316
places: London, England
publisher: Basic Books