Main entry:

Whitfield, Peter, 1947- author

Title & Author:

London : a life in maps / Peter Whitfield.

Publication:

London : British Library, 2006

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 206) and index.
London Before the Fire -- The Age of Elegance -- The Victorian Metropolis -- The Shock of the New.

Summary:

"Like all the great historic cities of Europe, London appears to us solid and unchanging. But this solidity is an illusion, for throughout its long history London has been changing and evolving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets and buildings at its heart and has been spreading inexorably outwards."
"In London: A Life in Maps this dynamic process is vividly illustrated by maps that have been drawn and published over the past 500 years; and this book offers a magnificent panorama of London's history by focusing on its maps. The link between London and Westminster; the devastation of the Great Fire; the emergence of the West End as a place of fashion: the opening of the Royal Parks; the building of the docks; the coming of the railway age; the impact of World Wars - all these processes and many more are evident in these historic maps." "Approximately 100 important maps from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day are illustrated and discussed."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Additional Information at Google Books
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780712349185
0712349189
9780712349192 (pbk.)
0712349197 (pbk.)

Subject:

74.31 history of cartography.
74.19 geography of Europe.
Historical geography
Kaarten (geografie)
London (England) History Pictorial works.
London (England) History Maps.
London (England) Historical geography.
London (England) Historical geography Maps.
London (England) History.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire Cartes.
Londres (Angleterre) Géographie historique.
Londres (Angleterre) Géographie historique Cartes.
England London
Londen.
Londres (GB) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Londres (GB) Histoire Plans.
Londres (GB) Géographie historique.
Londres (GB) Géographie historique Cartes.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History
Maps
Illustrated works
History (form)
Cartes géographiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261404
Call No.: BIB 192412
Status: Available