{"product_id":"a-history-of-london-9780786707638","title":"A History of London","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA History of London\u003c\/strong\u003e by Inwood, Stephen. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780786707638.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its first-century beginnings as a Roman outpost on the banks of the Thames to its status in the twenty-first as a cosmopolitan world capital, London has belonged to outsiders. From Europes major cultural centers and every English-speaking corner of the Commonwealth, in successive waves of migration they have come to London -- the merchants and traders, the artists and artisans, the refugees and dreamers and speculators and financiers -- and each in their turn has left a distinctive mark on the citys cultural map. For Stephen Inwood, Londons history belongs primarily to these people whose tastes, talents, trades, and pocketbooks have continually reinvented the grand metropolis -- and sometimes threatened to destroy it. Drawing on a multitude of sources and an abundance of unfamiliar anecdotes, Inwood tirelessly explores the history of a city defined as much by the mob as the monarch, and on every page shows why, as Samuel Johnson said, \"When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118438113333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786707631","price":29.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786707638_8481936e-25b1-4b8c-84ae-931497a0e2f8.jpg?v=1778633726","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-history-of-london-9780786707638","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}