The City Of London Volume 2 David Kynaston

Name: The City Of London Volume 2 By David Kynaston
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The City Of London Volume 2 by David Kynaston

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Between 1890 and 1914 the City of London was all dominant as Britain's legendary gold standard reigned supreme across the globe. Combining brilliant scholarship with high entertainment, and drawing on an unparalleled range of original sources, David Kynaston brings the city triumphant into the mainstream of British and world history.

The City Of London Volume 2 Summary

The City Of London Volume 2: Golden Years 1890-1914 by David Kynaston

Between 1890 and 1914 the City of London was all dominant as Britain's legendary gold standard reigned supreme across the globe. Golden Years anatomises an elite at the height of its powers. Combining brilliant scholarship with high entertainment, and drawing on an unparalleled range of original sources, David Kynaston brings the city triumphant into the mainstream of British and world history.

The City Of London Volume 2 Reviews

[An] enthralling history...He illustrates it with rich anecdotes, an extraordinary range of sources, and lively writing. It is a wonderful piece of work * Financial Times *
Overflows with lines that leap off any front page today...Great history * New Statesman & Society *
His City towers over the Thames basin, an ant hill of energy, speculation and greed. The story is never dry, for Kynaston tells it as human drama...This is economic history as its most glittering * The Times *

About David Kynaston

David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. After graduating from New College Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics. A professional historian, in addition to the four-volume The City of London, his works include King Labour: A History of the British Working Class, 1850-1914, histories of the Financial Times and the stockbrokers Cazenove & co., and the first two volumes in a planned history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain, 1951-57.

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Sku

GOR004897514

ISBN 13

9780712662710

ISBN 10

0712662715

Title

The City Of London Volume 2: Golden Years 1890-1914 by David Kynaston

Author

David Kynaston

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage

Year published

19960606

Number of pages

704

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N/A

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