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1 online resource (xviii, 373 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Humanities Digital Library.
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Open Access e-Books.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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I. Markets, hinterlands and environments - Feeding another city : provisioning Dublin in the later middle ages / Margaret Murphy - Did peasants need markets and towns? The experience of late medieval England / Christopher Dyer - The proliferation of markets revisited / Richard Britnell - 'Tempests of weather and great abundance of water': the flooding of the Barking marshes in the later middle ages / James A. Galloway - II. Luxury, innovation and skill - A taste for the Orient? Cosmopolitan demand for 'exotic' consumables in late medieval Bruges / Peter Stabel - Hartlib's world / Rob Iliffe - Hiding in the forest ... the Gilberts' rural scientific instrument manufactory / Anita McConnell - III. Suburbs, neighbourhoods and communities - Houses and households in Cheapside, c.1500-1550 / Vanessa Harding - 'The poore lost a good frend and the parish a good neighbour': the lives of the poor and their supporters in London's eastern suburb, c.1583-c.1679 / Philip Baker and Mark Merry - Between sea and city : portable communities in late medieval London and Bruges / Erik Spindler - The kindness of strangers : charitable giving in the community of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Catherine Wright - IV. Governance - Londoners and the court of common pleas in the fifteenth century / Matthew Frank Stevens - Crown, city and guild in late medieval London / Matthew Davies - Urban governments and their citizens in early modern Europe / Maarten Prak - Victoria Street in theory and practice : scenes from the governmentality of nineteenth-century London / Richard Dennis - Converging lines, dissecting circles : railways and the socialist ideal in London and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century / Carlos López Galviz - A bibliography of the published writings of Derek Keene. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Humanities Digital Library, viewed January 31, 2017). |
| Summary |
This volume contains selected papers from a major conference held in October 2008 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the setting up of the Centre for Metropolitan History at the IHR, and the contribution of Professor Derek Keene to the Centre, the IHR and the wider world of scholarship.-- Provided by Publisher. |
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Cities and towns -- History.
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London (England) -- History.
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Villes -- Histoire.
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Londres (Angleterre) -- Histoire.
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Cities and towns
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England -- London
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp68ckpMtKGHPFWQrwDMP
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Davies, Matthew P., editor.
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Galloway, James A., editor.
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Keene, Derek, honouree.
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University of London. Institute of Historical Research.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: London and beyond. London : Institute of Historical Research, ©2012 9781905165704 (OCoLC)820126135 |
| ISBN |
9781909646445 (electronic bk.) |
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190964644X (electronic bk.) |
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9781905165704 (hardback edition) |
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1905165706 (hardback edition) |
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AU@ 000063927894 |
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