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  • Londres: Una biografíaby Peter Ackroyd

    Edhasa 2012; US$ 14.67

    Desde su creación en el siglo I, tras la conquista romana de Britania, Londinium ha sido un enclave fundamental para el desarrollo económico, político y cultural de Occidente, auténtico crisol de culturas, y con el paso de los años ha sabido crear una rica mitología propia que ha marcado profundamente a sus habitantes. Peter Ackroyd, uno de los mayores... more...

  • The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010by Warwick Rodwell

    Oxbow Books 2010; US$ 15.00

    Westminster Abbey is one of the most important and well-known medieval buildings in Europe but, despite being studied by generations of scholars, there is still much to learn about its history and architecture. The lantern over the centre of the church is a case in point. Edward the Confessor built a great tower here, which is depicted on the Bayeux... more...

  • Walking Tour Londonby G.Byrne Bracken

    Marshall Cavendish 2011; US$ 12.80

    As a city for walking and exploring, London is one of the finest in the world. This guide provides 15 walking tours in London’s most famous and scenic locations, including Westminster, Covent Garden, Trafalgar Square, Bloomsbury, Chelsea, Kensington, South Bank, St James’s, Smithfield as well as the London Olympics site.The book features... more...

  • Where Are You From?by Dhooleka S. Raj

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95

    Dhooleka S. Raj explores the complexities of ethnic minority cultural change in this incisive examination of first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. Challenging prevalent understandings of ethnicity that equate community, culture, and identity, Raj considers how transnational ethnic minorities are circumscribed... more...

  • Multilingual Identities in a Global Cityby Dr David Block

    Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 40.00

    Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language teachers from France; London's growing Latino community; and second generation South Asian university... more...

  • London Politics, 1760-1914by Matthew Cragoe; Dr Antony Taylor

    Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 120.00

    This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in 19th-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. more...

  • Fighting Macby Trevor Royle

    Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 13.33

    On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's most famous soldiers had ended his life rather than face... more...

  • The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890by Marc Baer

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 105.00

    The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy. more...

  • Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian Londonby Benjamin Weinstein

    Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 90.00

    This book shows Whiggery to have been an especially potent force in the early Victorian capital where continual conflict between Whigs and radicals gave the metropolitan constituencies a singularly contested and particularly vibrant liberal political culture. Metropolitan radicals active in local governing structures began to espouse an anti-Whig programme.... more...

  • Medieval Londonby Gwyn A. Williams

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 200.00

    This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the century and a half between 1191 and the beginnings... more...