Imagining Early Modern London
Subtitle: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype, 15981720
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 24, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521773461
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Local history; Social history; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; Congresses; Survey of London; History: World; London, Greater London; Essays; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain; London (England)--History--17th century--Congresses; Stow, John; Strype, John; 18th century; 1525?-1605.; 17th century; History; London (England); Stow, John,
First sentence: John Stow might have anticipated Peter Laslett by 350 years, calling his Survey of London the World We Have Lost.