City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London

Book Description
By 1880, London, capital of the largest empire ever known, was the richest, most populous city in the world. Yet it remained an overcrowded, undergoverned city with huge slums gripped by poverty and disease. Over the next three decades, London began its transformation into a new kind of cityone of unprecedented size, dynamism, and technological advance. In this highly evocative account, Stephen Inwood defines an era of unique character and importance by delving into the lives and textures of the booming city. He takes usby cab, bicycle, electric tram or motor busfrom the glittering new department stores of Oxford Street to the synagogues and sweat shops of the East End, bohemian bars and gaudy music halls to the well-kept gardens of Edwardian surburbia.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)19.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.8