Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies 1680-1780

by Miles Ogborn

Book Overview

From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the geographies of eighteenth-century London. Ogborn draws upon a wide variety of textual and visual sources to illuminate processes of commodification, individualization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572303654
• ISBN13: 9781572303652
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"