A Great and Monstrous Thing offers a street-level view of eighteenth-century London, a city of grandeur and glitter, squalor and poverty, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. What emerges is a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history—and especially by class.
| ISBN: | 9780674076389 |
| Publication date: | 28th February 2013 |
| Author: | White, Jerry |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |