Victorian Babylon
Subtitle: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780300107708
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; London, Greater London; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Modern / 19th Century; Sociology - Urban
First sentence: In forming our idea of the great capital of the British Empire and of the nineteenth century, we naturally look for models in the great cities of the past, and the centres of other empires.