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London [compact disc] : a short history of the greatest city in the Western world / Robert Bucholz.

by Bucholz, R. O., 1958-

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2009.

London (England) -- History.

London (England) -- Intellectual life.

London (England) -- Social life and customs.

1598035282 (set)

9781598035285 (set)

Great courses (Compact disc)

12 sound discs (12 hr.) in 2 containers : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 141 p. ; 19 cm.)

Part 1. There's no place like London -- The rise and fall of Roman Londinium -- Medieval London's thousand-year climb -- Economic life in Chaucer's London -- Politics and religion in Chaucer's London -- London embraces the early Tudors -- Elizabeth I and London as a stage -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- East -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- West -- London rejects the early Stuarts -- Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th century London -- Plague and fire.

Part 2. London rises again -- as an imperial capital -- Johnson's London -- all that life can afford -- The underside of 18th century London -- London confronts its problems -- Life in Dickens's London -- Two windows into Victorian London -- Questions postponed and the Great War -- London's interwar expansion and diversions -- The blitz -- the greatest target in the world -- Postwar London returns to life -- The varied winds of change -- Millennial London -- how do you like it?

Professor Bucholz delivers twenty-four thirty minute lectures on the history of London.

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