The Secret History Of Our Streets: London Av Joseph Bullman, Neil Hegarty, Brian Hill

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.

''Striking... Hegarty has gifted us a vital book for our time. Bathed in light, seeped in colour; it is full of the act of being mortal ¿ in a landscape that is ¿ slowly, finally ¿ finding what it means to be human'' IRISH TIMES....

Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances and changing identities.

<P>This hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.</P><P>Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have...