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A Great and Monstrous Thing

London in the Eighteenth Century

Jerry White

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$39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674073173

Publication Date: 02/28/2013

704 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

60 halftones, 13 maps

United States and its dependencies only

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Jerry White is Visiting Professor in History at Birkbeck, University of London.

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At Bloomberg.com, listen to Jerry White talk with Lewis Lapham about some of the more sordid aspects of London’s history
At PopMatters, read an excerpt from A Great and Monstrous Thing—on the “ménage of misfits” collected by Samuel Johnson during his 47 years in the great city

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